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 Devil’s advocate: they have to hire some Oswald, expendable gunman who may have somewhat questionable skills and definitely questionable morals/mental stability. I think there’s still possibility it’s deep state. Another point: the sloppy secret service job who should’ve cleared the very few rooftops hours beforehand. 
 Don’t you think they don’t have other ways to kill him apart from putting an unreliable person on a roof with a rifle? 
 Putin has better ways to kill people than polonium tea.

Sometimes the medium is also the message. 

Like "guns r bad and cost the Right the Whitehouse." 
 Poison > lone gunman 
 Yes but history shows that “lone gunman” is a way to do it cleanly 
 I don’t know. Poison seams more effective. 
 Effective in the traceability sense or lethality? My point is around avoiding traceability back to the deep state 
 In both maybe. Well, I don’t know. I never really thought about that stuff.