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America Dodges a Bullet

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However saddened, perplexed or angry we may be about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, we shouldn’t lose sight of the larger lesson that life can end at any minute.

The news media’s on-site coverage of the July 13 attempted assassination of Donald Trump produced a host of enduring images.

The most iconic of all was The Associated Press’ almost cinematic photograph of Secret Service agents with the former president — bloodied but defiant, his fist raised — exiting the stage with an American flag rippling in the background.

But there is a different, widely viewed image that speaks to the broader reality of what happened that day in rural Butler, Pennsylvania.

It’s a computer-generated animation showing the trajectory of the would-be assassin’s bullet as it whizzed past Trump, just nicking his ear. Had he not turned his head at the last possible instant, it seems probable he would have died on the spot.

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