I woke up on Sunday morning and decided to turn the television on at around 8.30 in the morning and flicked the news on, I was shocked with what was being reported. An assassination attempt had been made on the life of former president and presidential nominee Donald Trump at a political rally, whilst I do not support his policies, any person or group that supports violence to achieve their goals should be dismantled.

The attempted assassination of a former president during an election cycle is pretty much unheard of. I recall the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan back in 1981 and was shocked at the assassination of Anwar Sadat a little later in 1981. I like to go for a run on Sunday mornings, as it was training I did not consider going outside and instead spent the morning watching news reports and following up on my computer. Former President Trump has been making big statements so let us see if he winds back the rhetoric after this assassination attempt.

The photographs taken by Associated Press photographer Evan Vucci are remarkable, the best of the shots was of a defiant Trump surrounded by the Secret Service with his clenched fist raised upwards. Capturing a shot of the bullet flying past former President Trump’s head is amazing, that captured a moment in time. Evan Vucci had previously been awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his breaking photography work during the George Floyd riots, Vucci captured the moment Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi ditched his shoe at President George Bush in Iraq who did a pretty good job of dodging the projectile.