Former President Donald Trump barely missed several hissing bullets that would have ended his life last Saturday.
The world watched a miracle take place as former President Trump barely missed an assassin’s bullet. Thousands of people in the audience witnessed this in person, and millions of people have watched it live or have since seen the video replayed many times.
July 13 will go down as a day that will forever be remembered in American history. It was a sad day when there was an attempt made to take a former President’s life while he was campaigning for reelection.
While most Americans are relieved that the heinous attempt on Trump’s life was not successful, we mourn that some people sitting in the crowd were not as fortunate. At this writing one man in the crowd was killed while two more persons remain in critical condition.
The question has surely been asked: why do such innocent people have to suffer and even die while simply attending a political rally? Most likely, the assassin’s target was only Trump, but he was apparently not concerned that others might die as a result of his actions.
Evil always afflicts the innocent. Time and time again, we have seen mass school shootings where a shooter had a specific target in mind, yet others were killed and suffered along with the targeted victim. Evil has no boundaries or concerns about the results of its actions.
We have heard it said over and again that this was a sad day in America. It is also sad that every political campaign event will be crawling with security at an even higher level. This doesn’t mean that the most recent event in Pennsylvania was not crawling with security. At any event a snake can slither into a crack and then suddenly strike to inflict pain and devastation.
Recently, a neighbor was out of town and his sister was taking care of his two pet birds. She was shocked when she went to feed them and discovered a four-foot-long snake was in the cage and had killed one of the birds. How the snake got into the house is unclear. How the snake got up to the elevated level where the birds were seemingly safe is hard to understand. However, it was there and in time would have killed the second bird.
Somehow, my cousin got the head of the snake between a pair of scissors and called another neighbor to help. They managed to cut off the head of the monster snake before dragging it out of the birdcage. Unfortunately, one precious pet bird perished and the second one was terrorized before the snake was killed.
Assassins and mass shooters are like slithering snakes crawling quietly to strike their victims. They hide, they are creepy and sneaky, and plot to move under the radar. The Secret Service, FBI and local police must work hand in hand to screen every nook and cranny as well as every high and low space to hopefully deter such an act from happening again.
Tragically, it has happened too many times before. Abraham Lincoln was sitting in an unprotected theatre booth in Washington. President Kennedy was riding in a convertible and was a wide-open target from various angles. Martin Luther King Jr. was caught off guard on the balcony of a Memphis hotel. John Lennon and his wife were simply walking into their New York City apartment building.
Many others have been targeted throughout history.
We can never let our guard down. Even when our guard is high, there is the risk of a slithering villain lurking in the vicinity.
Dr. Glenn Mollette is a graduate of numerous schools, including Georgetown College, Southern Seminary and Lexington Seminary in Kentucky. His column is published weekly in over 600 publications in all 50 states. Find books by Glenn Mollette on amazon.com. Learn more about his books, columns and music at glennmollette.com.