The President of Haiti was assassinated, he was shot a total of 12 times at close range, fatal wounds appeared in the abdomen, and four Assassins were killed on the spot by his guards. Why wasn't it the tall sniper who killed him?
First of all, snipers are really not cabbage, the entire United States including the army, SWAT, law enforcement departments a total of more than 3,000 snipers, the whole of Haiti may not find a qualified sniper, his political enemies really can not afford it. Secondly, the assassination has never had much to do with snipers, and there are really no assassinations in history in which snipers participate.
Ever since the invention of the musket, it has been used for assassination, and the Attempts in this regard in the East even predate the West. In October 1581, while inspecting Iga, the Japanese warlord Oda Nobunaga was assassinated by three ninjas, Mizuemon Jodo, Harada Carpentry, and Indai Judge. But these three ninjas really didn't have sniper skills, and the assassination was a failure. The first successful musket assassination in Japanese history occurred on March 24, 1860, when the 18-name Ronin copycat version of Colt 1851 revolver killed shogun Ii Naohiro.
This kind of pistol, especially revolver shooting political leaders, has been driven, and in the history of assassination in the world, close assassination can be much more "popular" than long-distance sniper. Five years after the Sakurada Gate Rebellion, Colt's hometown of the United States also had a close-quarters assassin, Lincoln. Wilkes Boone, who assassinated Lincoln, despised Colt, a road commodity that made everyone equal, and used the more aggressive and expensive Driunger front-loading single-barrel pocket pistol. In addition to Lincoln, there were two U.S. presidents who were bitter masters of the revolver, two of the four killed U.S. presidents died under revolver guns, garfield was killed by a disgraced lawyer named Charles Giteo, using a Belgian-made .44 caliber "British Bulldog" revolver; Leon Jorgos, who killed McKinley, was a worker and used a 32-caliber revolver (lady's pistol, which federal agents did not find). None of them had been trained as snipers, but had only temporarily learned marksmanship.
The only exception to the U.S. president killer was Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy using the old Carcano M91/38 manual rifle, which had been widely circulated since the 1920s (a rifle that was widely used by the Feng and Fujian armies in warlord melee and ceased production after World War II). is a very old firearm), the method of assassination is also long-range sniping. Oswald was trained in the Marine Corps and had excellent rifle shooting skills, having a high-light moment of 48 points (out of 50), but he had a reclusive personality, was not well-liked in the Marine Corps, and did not receive sniper training.
This is true in the United States, and it is also true in China during the Republic of China. Boss Dai's military command is mighty in the film and television drama, but there is really no military sniper who is killed by one shot. When the secret agents of the military command assassinated Shi Liangcai, they actually created a "record" of firing dozens of shots without hitting people in a row, and in the end, it was Zhao Lijun, a famous killer of the military command, who led the people to block the fleeing Shi Liangcai, before slowly shooting him. The assassination of Wang Jingwei was the biggest operation of the military command during the War of Resistance, but snipers were not used, and the agents of the military command rushed into the room to shoot at close range, only killing Wang Jingwei's secretary Zeng Zhongming.
Snipers appeared during World War I, and by the time of World War II, there were not many qualified snipers in military powers, and they were very sensitive, so they did not appear in many assassinations.