David C. Moyer

I wonder if Trump owes his life to video games. On one hand, I can't imagine how someone can miss a shot like that at 150 yards. I can do that off-hand 99% of the time- prone should be 100% of the time.

But the shooter had a history of being a bad shot and being a video game enthusiast.

I teach a lot of young people to shoot. One person, I had being an excellent shot. But hunting season was 6 months away. When he came back for hunting season we didn't get to do any target shooting before hand. He missed two deer at less than 100 feet. When they are that close I pull out my handgun. But somehow he missed at that range with a scoped rifle. Eventually, we figured out that he had decided that having the cross-hairs on the target was sufficient- no need to have the cross-hairs in the center of the scope picture. Video shooting games always have just the cross-hairs. They are always centered. Putting the cross-hairs even close to the target achieves hitting the target. Reality is something different, but they develop the habit of shooting whenever the cross-hairs are on target. Possibly, that is why the assassin missed.

I recall that other students who were trained on open sights decided on their own that only the front sight needed to be on target. The rear sight wasn't involved. It took me quite a while to figure out this misunderstandin g in two cases- with rounds being fired into the air.