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No one was fired after Kennedy or Reagan got shot.
No one was trying to be a world famous media congress critter, neither.
Denying the request for more security is the problem here, I think.
There are legitimate reasons for denying increased security. One of them is the Congressional favorite excuse for things not being done that should be, the budget. If there isn't the budget for increased security, then a denial would be expected. A very vocal portion of Congress loves to talk about their about shrinking the budget all the damned time. One of the consequences of that is not having the budget to react to changing circumstances.
Maybe so, but she is still the one who took the heat for it. And the buck sort of stops with her here.
It does, because that's what department heads do, they take the fall in situations like this. Even if the root cause wasn't related to them. It's an expectation of the position.
The response to those shootings was exactly by the book while the response in Trump's case was sheer incompetence. You can't control the shooter, but you can control the readiness and response and those were abysmal this time.
It seems like you're saying two different things. Isn't "by the book" almost the opposite of "sheer incompetence"?
I'm not sure if you saw my edit that tries to clarify this point. The two attacks mentioned had secret service handle things by the book and no one got fired. This time with the Trump attack, was the opposite. Sorry for any confusion.
Ah, yeah, that clears things up.