What Affect on the Polls Trump Assassination Attempt?

[william the wie]

Pogo what is sinking in is you are wrong and to ignorant to know it.

 

[Pogo]

Pogo what is sinking in is you are wrong and to ignorant to know it.

"To ignorant" huh.

This is all about the proper use of the English language. You just flunked.

 

[Pogo]

Well now you're just repeating yourself. You were wrong the first time and you continue to be wrong. There is no requirement for any level of success in an attempted assassination for it to BE an attempted assassination.

Correct, and yes I have been repeating myself, as it doesn't seem to be sinking in. I noted that all along.

He intended to assassinate... he stated as much... he attempted to get the cop's gun and failed. Had he only THOUGHT about attempting to get the cop's gun, it wouldn't have been an assassination attempt... it would have merely been a plot to assassinate. But since he went for the gun, it's an attempted assassination. He failed miserably... but he still attempted it.

Wrong. His plan, insofar as he says he had one, consisted of two steps -- ONE, acquire the cop's gun; TWO, shoot the target. Those are two separate things, not one. What he attempted was Step One. That failed. WITHOUT accomplishing Step One --- THERE IS NO STEP TWO. It is not possible to shoot someone with your finger.

Let's stop here and assess just that much to see where we are.

Attempt to grab cop's gun (Step one) -- yes.
Attempt to shoot Rump (Step two) -- no.

Let's put it yet another way: While you can't accomplish step two without step one, you CAN accomplish step one without ever committing step two. That's why we call them "two separate things". If they were one separate thing, they would be what we call "inseparable".

Once again for the slow kids, in the example above:

Was Byck a would-be assassin? Yes he was.
Did Byck hatch a plan to carry out an assassination? Yes he did. We know that, as he left meticulous records before setting out to do it, because he figured he'd be hailed as a hero (which is probably what most of them think).

Did Byck begin to execute that plan? Yes he did. He got past Step One and almost halfway though Step Two in a three-step plan.

Did Byck make an assassination attempt? No he did not. Being stopped at Step Two made it impossible to take Step Three. Step Three *IS* the assassination attempt. Again, he could not get to Step Three without executing Step Two --- which failed.

Step One (acquire firearm) facilitates Step Two (which is hijack the plane). Step Two facilitates Step Three (crash plane into White House). Without Three, you cannot do Two.

Same thing here. Sanford had a two-step plan, step one being to grab the firearm. Failing at that, it was impossible to move on to Step Two. You can't just skip Step One and shoot somebody with nothing. Just as Byck could not crash-land an imaginary plane he never got aloft.

Hence there was no "assassination attempt", and that's why it's not news. Non-events tend to be that.

And anybody who doesn't get that commercial news sources will pump up whatever non-news they can find in the quest for viewers (because it means ratings, because that means ad revenue) just doesn't have a clue how the world works.