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    17 hours ago

    I’d say that it’s probably one of the easier places, actually, because post-9/11, there’s a lot of security at the Super Bowl, whether-or-not a President is there. Like, they already have overhead marksmen and airspace restrictions and stuff, which is the sort of stuff that you’d put on the President at an event.

    I believe that the Super Bowl is considered to be a potential target because of its high visibility.

    IIRC, even before that, Tom Clancy had one of his books involve terrorists blowing up the Super Bowl with a small nuclear weapon.

    kagis

    Yeah, The Sum of All Fears.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sum_of_All_Fears

    The terrorists’ plan is to detonate the weapon at the Super Bowl in Denver while simultaneously staging a false flag attack on U.S. military forces in stationed in Berlin by East Germans disguised as Soviet soldiers.

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      13 hours ago

      And keep in mind if someone as prominent as Taylor Swift might be there Trump can sort of ride her coat tails security-wise.

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        13 hours ago

        Hang on do you actually think that Taylor Swifts security detail is better than the fuckin secret service??

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            10 hours ago

            Yes… Because a generally liked pop singer and a highly controversial world leader have the same likelihood for being assassinated.

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              7 hours ago

              If you don’t think Taylor Swift is under absolutely constant threat of assault and kidnapping then I have an incel in Brooklyn to sell you.

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                … I never said she wasn’t? I simply find it comical that you think a pop star has a better security detail than the sitting president of the United States lol.

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                9 hours ago

                Ok so that’s 1 for assassinated pop stars… And a couple hundred assassinated world leaders. Or 4 presidents if you wanna limit yourself to just the US and it’s relatively short history.

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                  2 hours ago

                  There’s a lot more than just one - here’s a specific example with excessive violence and a lot of collateral damage

                  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimebag_Darrell

                  And here’s Wikipedia’s list of notable musicians, do note that someone performing at your local club or restaurant wouldn’t make it onto this list

                  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_murdered_musicians

                  Also, she’s a prominent woman and there are just a lot of creepy guys out there so she’d faced an immense amount of abuse from a distance and personal threats of a violent, sexual and violently sexual nature.

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                    58 minutes ago

                    Damn you right. Maybe it is easier to kill a musician than it is to kill a sitting US president with the secret service around.

                    Crazy concept I know.

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                  4 hours ago

                  You really want to go down that road? Because I’m sure there’s a Wikipedia article that could show you a lot more attempted assassinations for pop stars than presidents /world leaders

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                    1 hour ago

                    Here’s a crazy concept. Maybe they get killed more frequently than US presidents because they don’t have the fuckin secret service protecting them 24/7. I mean the guy who killed John Lennon just walked up to him outside a building and shot him.