After decades without political violence directed at a presidential candidate from one of the major parties, the US has now experienced this twice in the space of two months - with former president Donald Trump the target on both occasions.
In mid-July, he narrowly avoided being shot in the head by a gunman at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The 20-year-old attacker was shot dead by a sniper.
Two months later, on Sunday afternoon, during a round of golf, he was the apparent target of another would-be assassin, according to the FBI, with a suspect now in custody.
I recall seeing a list of the most dangerous jobs in America and “President of the United States” topped it due to the high percentage of people with that job who’ve been shot.
Only by percentage. When you only have a dataset of 46, each incident is much bigger than something like children killed vs total school children.