 Now, there have been several other presidential assassination attempts in US history, usually from the perspective of the bystanders. They come like a thunderbolt out of the clear blue sky, completely unexpected, shocking. This is the first one, to my knowledge, where dozens of people in the crowd saw it coming and spent minutes pointing out the assassin to law enforcement, who proceeded to do absolutely nothing about it. This is the first time you have a whole crowd of people in the minutes leading up to the assassination attempt, pointing to the assassin and saying, essentially,