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Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr

Really? Your source is an incredibly biased story in an ultra liberal publication?

So they were able to find two combat veterans that support their position. Do you think that they could have found any with different opinions?

From the linked The Nation article:

Dabid Chipman says the Secret Service’s history is instructive. “Here’s an agency that has all the weaponry that they could ever need, all the training that they could ever need, and they’ve never fired a weapon in defense of a president during an assassination attempt. You’re trained to throw your body in front of the protectee, not to open fire. Just look at the picture taken immediately after Reagan was shot and count the guns in that photograph. They’re all being held by highly-trained experts and not one of them fired. They didn’t shoot [would-be assassin John] Hinckley. And that’s because you’re likely to do more harm than good in that situation.”