Unlike Donald Trump, most of us do not get to face the risk of violence with Secret Service protection
It is not a good sign for US politics that a second assassination attempt against the former president and current Republican nominee, Donald Trump, seems to be fading into the media’s background noise as a relatively minor story. In part, this might be because of the particulars of the incident at Trump’s Palm Beach golf club in Florida, not far from his resort home at Mar-a-Lago.
For one thing, the suspect never fired a shot, though he was armed with an AK-47 assault rifle with the serial number scratched off; having hidden in the bushes on the golf course for an estimated 12 hours, apparently waiting for Trump to appear, the would-be shooter was apprehended by Secret Service agents, who shot at him and missed.
Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist
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