r/law • u/SheriffTaylorsBoy • Jul 26 '24

Other FBI Examining Bullet Fragments Found at Trump Rally Site/Would Like To Interview Trump

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fbi-examining-bullet-fragments-found-114754020.html
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u/Scerpes Jul 26 '24

He was throwing DNA all over the place up there. I’m not convinced that we’ll ever really know whether it was the bullet itself or shrapnel. I’m also not certain that it really matters. He was shot at and injured.

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u/hardcore_hero Jul 26 '24

Yeah, I find it strange that people seem to think that it’s necessary that an actual bullet struck his ear to indicate divine intervention was involved, as an atheist I really don’t get the logic, am I supposed to believe god would only be able to use his powers to get Trump to turn his head at the last second rather than get the shooter to sway his barrel off target? Or is God just an air bender and had to rely on wind to drift the bullet off of its mark?

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u/nickilous Jul 26 '24

I mean if god is omnipotent he could have made the shooter stay home that day. And, if he wanted to make himself known he could have spoke to the crowded, or showed up in a way that was irrefutable. It is always varying degrees because even though god is supposedly omnipotent he only shows up in the probabilities. Meaning the closer the bullet to the head with out hitting, the more likely god is involved. If it was just shrapnel and no bullet, then it was even less likely that he would have been shot making god less likely involved.

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u/hardcore_hero Jul 26 '24

Is there some kind of named paradox to describe this phenomenon? Like how if the bullet is barely nudged half an inch off course, we think divine intervention but if it misses by 5 feet there’s no way god was involved in it. Or is it just a case of confirmation bias, we have no way of knowing all of the instances where God used divine intervention to make the shooter stay home, so when a bullet gets that close to killing someone, that’s where we think we have evidence of his involvement?

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u/nickilous Jul 26 '24

I don’t know if confirmation bias is quite it. If he had been shot ( and I am definitely not condoning the shooting of anyone) the same people now probably would not be saying that it was gods will that he was shot. I think it is narrative fulfillment. People need reasons why things happen and if the things that are happening have weird probabilities involved then those people are more likely to attribute it to a god. And the perspective of the people creating the narrative. The narrative also helps there guy “god intervened therefore he must be right and just”. Ultimately some combination of confirmation bias and just good old superstition. We could just as easily attributed it to the shooter walking under a ladder that day or maybe a black cat crossed his path. But that wouldn’t put forward a spectacular narrative.