by Charles Carreon
9/20/25
We're Good at This
You know, if there’s any type of case Americans should be good at solving, it’s a sniper shooting. We are, after all, a gun-loving nation. How clearly I remember the delight my father shared with me when we went together to see “A Fistful of Dollars,” Clint Eastwood’s first spaghetti Western. How electric the moment when Ramon, the nemesis of the Man With No Name in a town ruled by gangs, gives him a word of advice – “When a man with a pistol meets a man with a rifle, the man with the pistol is a dead man.”
Although the point of the movie was “We’ll see about that,” coming from military school in Virginia where war history was a big part of our diet, I was inclined to agree with the premise. From a military perspective, the advantage of range is obvious, and we don’t equip infantry with rifles because they’re less effective than pistols. Of course, officers carry pistols because the handgun serves well as an instrument of internal discipline (see the opening scene in the old Jude Law film, “Stalingrad,” where a pistol wielding officer incentivizes Red Army conscripts hesitant to charge into certain death by shooting them in the back). But let’s stay focused on rifles and their incredible accuracy at long range.
Let's Talk Target Shooting
if you haven’t done much shooting, you don’t think about how much training it takes to achieve the type of marksmanship that Charlie Kirk’s killer possesses. It was a model piece of target shooting with a human being as a 200-yard target with a bulls-eye on the smallest target on the human body – the neck. Think about what it might take to hit a six-inch bulls-eye at 200-yards. Now think about the rifle said to be the murder weapon – a World War One era service bolt action rifle. Strangely, official reports haven’t reported discovering the bullet, or efforts to match it to the Mauser thirty-ought-six (30-06) said to be the murder weapon.
Not the Best Rifle for the Job
Let me jump to the point – this is not the gun a professional would use to commit this murder. It cannot be broken down for transport; it weighs several pounds more than an AR style rifle shooting a .223 bullet, and kicks five times as hard. The .223 is an absolutely reliable bullet for shooting at the 200 yard range. It takes a great deal more training to learn to accurately shoot a rifle like the Mauser 30-06, which was the basic German infantry rifle from 1898 through the Second World War, and was indeed used by snipers with special modifications. So it can do the job, but only in well-trained hands, and you can’t just pick up a Mauser 30—06 and start training with it. If you try, it will pound your shoulder into hamburger with the first 30 shots, and you will develop a flinch that will keep you from training. The 30-06 kicks with 18 – 25 pounds of force, and the muzzle pops up higher, while the AR kicks with 3 – 7 pounds of force, which at two pounds lighter, is a very manageable recoil that allows for steady, continuous shooting.
Behold the Impossible Feat
Okay, let’s pretend to be Tyler Robinson for a minute. He decides to kill Charlie Kirk about a week ago, borrows his Dad’s 30-06, heads off to a convenient rooftop, shoots one shot, and kills Charlie Kirk. This is what we call an impossible feat. Assuming he wanted to actually accomplish the murder, rather than just kill random folks in the crowd, he would have to spend an hour at the range every weekday for about six months. He’d start out with a .22 long rifle, shooting at 30, 50, and 100 yards, and in about three or four months, when he’s shot about 5,000 rounds on his .22, he would transition to the 30-06. He would then start at close ranges, 50 – 100 yards, using low recoil hunting loads to soften the recoil, shooting from the prone position with a bipod. He would slowly increase the power of the cartridge loads to avoid developing a flinch, and use breathing techniques and progressive relaxation techniques to develop stability. If he has a lot of discipline, he could accomplish this in six months to a year, with practice every weekday.
And that’s just the outer training. What do you think it takes to be a political assassin? A political assassin isn’t committing random violence, unleashing frustration in a free-fire spree. They are acting with cold-blooded precision to kill a specific person whom them can see with clarity through a telescopic sight. Could you do it? Professional snipers have an array of psychological tricks they use to overcome the natural reticence to kill another human. Without those tricks, or the dark gift of amoral sociopathy, killing a person you don’t even know personally, cold-bloodedly, from a distance, is not a burden your average soul can even try to lift.
Military snipers are trained to see targets as problems to solve. They ritualize the process of accomplishing a kill, and thus, do not think of it as a kill. Peering through their scope, they focus on wind, trajectory, breathing, and target profile, suppressing the impulse to think about the subjective experience of death into which they are about to cast another person. They adopt a protective philosophy, “shooting one to save many,” by eliminating threats to others. Ironically, military sniping is a lonely task, because regular infantry often find snipers creepy, and don’t socialize with them. Regular soldiers engage in mutual combat, and risk death in the engagement, unlike snipers, who kill from a place of safety. Thus, while regular soldiers respect their own snipers, they keep their distance, and despise enemy snipers.
Criminal Snipers -- a Rare Breed, Indeed
Criminal snipers – people who pick their targets and kill at a distance -- are not a common phenomenon. I mean, there’s that skill requirement. The last ones of note were the Beltway snipers, who used a .223 Bushmaster to leave quite a trail of bodies, sometimes marked with the Tarot “Death card.” They were arrested twenty three years ago.
At 3:19 in the morning on October 24, 2002, the FBI closed in on the snipers and their 1990 Chevy Caprice. During the month, 10 people had been randomly gunned down and three critically injured while going about their everyday lives—mowing the lawn, pumping gas, shopping, reading a book. Among the victims was one of our own—FBI intelligence analyst Linda Franklin, who was felled by a single bullet while leaving a home improvement store in Virginia with her husband. But now, the attacks—which had terrorized the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area—had finally come to an end.
https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-case ... ipers?utm_
Casting about for other sniper criminals, we find that very few qualify for the description. People who open fire at targets of opportunity from a rooftop do not fit the sniper profile. A real criminal sniper is a rarity. Interestingly, the main Beltway shooter, John Allen Muhammad, qualified. He murdered his ex-wife Mildred in the midst of his spree, disguising her murder as one of many committed without apparent motive. The killing of another nine people and wounding of three others was integral to his attempt to conceal the personally motivated murder of his ex, consistent with the callous, depersonalized mind set of the sniper assassin, that makes everyone a tool in their larger plan.
Robinson Lacked Required Qualifications to Commit the Crime -- F-Class Marksmanship and Psychological Preparation
Suspect profiling is a useful investigative approach. Profiling means inferring the likely character of the perpetrator based on the characteristic manner of committing the crime. Profiling snipers, we find that they do not commit crimes on impulse. We can also use profiling to tell us who could not commit the crime, because the killer had to possess skills that only a small number of people possess. Statistically, the level of skill shown by Charlie Kirk’s assassin -- perforating a six inch disk of paper at 200 yards -- is common only among competitive marksmen shooting service rifles from bench-rests at targets between 300 and 1,200 yards. There are no more than 8,000 of these “F-Class” marksmen in the United States. Of the eighty-million gun owners in the US, F-Class shooters are one in ten-thousand. Whoever shot Charlie Kirk shoots better than 99.98 percent of other gun owners. They are in the top .01%, in shooting accuracy.
Tyler Robinson was not an F-Class marksman. Whatever Robinson did on the roof, it didn’t kill Charlie Kirk. For Tyler Robinson to kill Charlie Kirk in that fashion was no more possible than that I could pitch a no-hitter against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Of course, I’ve thrown a baseball, like Tyler’s played with his dad’s gun, but that doesn’t make the impossible possible. Soooo, like Sherlock Holmes said, you eliminate the impossible, and what remains must be the truth, even if you don’t want to believe it.
But tell that to a prosecutor with a pitchfork the size of Donald Trump up his butt. With such motivation hotly in mind, the State of Utah is seeking the death penalty against a 22-year-old who never owned a firearm, never hunted, never joined a gun club, and, presumably with Satan’s assistance, delivered a flawless neck shot at 200 yards with a century-old Mauser. Absurd. Like me summiting Everest. Not. Gonna. Happen.
Israel's Supreme Court Embraced Sniper Assassination of Protesters
The Kirk Assassination was accomplished with professional skill by skilled operatives. And on this planet, there are three primary assassination sponsors, worldwide -- the United States CIA, Israel’s Mossad, and Putin’s FSB. And these days, there’s no better way to piss off Bibi Netanyahu that to tell him who he can and can’t kill. He’ll fucking kill you just for saying that. How many journalists has he killed with his snipers? Now those motherfuckers have practice. If anybody can whip a kill like that out of their butthole, it’s an Israeli sniper. They are one-hundred percent free to shoot protesters anytime they want, so you think they’d blink at shooting a former ally going sideways on the Zionist cause? They shoot pregnant women for target practice, and thanks to the Israeli Supreme Court, that is legal schmeagle:
The Israeli Supreme Court on Thursday night, 24 May 2018, rejected two petitions filed by human rights groups and fully adopted the Israeli military’s position, giving a green light to its continued use of snipers and live fire against Palestinian protesters in the Gaza Strip.
Charlie Was on Bibi's Shit List, and Both Bibi and Trump are Exploiting His Death
As we all know now, Netanyahu was the first person to post after Charlie’s death. Hmmmm. And his posts were lies, as we also know. Kirk was on Bibi’s shit list. He had quarreled with his billionaire patrons. He had dared to question the devastation in Gaza and threatened to break with the Zionist fold. He knew he risked retaliation. Then came this shot. It silenced him. It turned him from a doubter into a martyr. And who benefits? Donald Trump, already whipping up a witch hunt, firing entertainers, suing newspapers, using Kirk’s death to deflect from the spreading Epstein scandal that threatens his hold on his followers.
Since Robinson Couldn't Have Done It, Who Did?
We eliminated the impossible. What remains? Actually, what remains is not at all improbable, indeed it is certain that a professional hit was carried out for political purposes. And the chief beneficiaries of Charlie’s death are Netanyahu and Trump. They both win by silencing Kirk and weaponizing his death, nor have they been slow in doing so.
Therefore, let us lay Charlie’s body at their feet.