probably.

There’s a lot of manpower in providing security for something like that. And that’s before the assassination attempt. soft check points need bodies. hard check points further into the event need even more bodies than the soft check points. And then there’s the roving people watching the gaps. Then there’s the people inside watching for anyone that slipped through somehow.

Then there’s all the other people that want additional security because they’re property is next to a soft check point, or vaguely adjacent and protestors/counter-protesters usually have a problem.

and I know internal dialog at the branch levels says we don’t have the capacity to provide uniformed security guards if a trump rally comes here. (or Dem rally.) the last trump rally was a shitshow. They didn’t have enough capacity in the venue so they set up jumbotrons outside the soft check points. Which were entrances to the skyway. All the people who didn’t want to give up their firearms chilled and watched the hitler trump rally, and basically shat all over everyone without regard for “oh, is that private property?”

And yes. I meant that literally, because they didn’t provide for sanitation.