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This is why we aim center of mass folks

spend more time at the range and use one size larger gun than you think you need, people!

I had seen this picture before and didn't know the context behind it

I really hope she took the opportunity to laugh and yell, "Got your nose!"

Citing the Belfast Telegraph, the article states:

The assassination attempt started a wave of popular support for Mussolini, resulting in the passage of pro-Fascist legislation which helped consolidate his control of Italy.

Suggesting a causal link between the assassination attempt and Mussolini's supposed popularity. Meanwhile, elsewhere on wikipedia:

On 7 April 1926, Mussolini survived a first assassination attempt by Violet Gibson, an Irish woman and daughter of Lord Ashbourne, who was deported after her arrest.[83] On 31 October 1926, 15-year-old Anteo Zamboni attempted to shoot Mussolini in Bologna. Zamboni was lynched on the spot.[84][85] Mussolini also survived a failed assassination attempt in Rome by anarchist Gino Lucetti,[86] and a planned attempt by the Italian anarchist Michele Schirru,[87] which ended with Schirru's capture and execution.[88]

All other parties were outlawed following Zamboni's assassination attempt in 1926, though in practice Italy had been a one-party state since 1925 (with either his January speech to the Chamber or the passage of the Christmas Eve law, depending on the source)

Grandma: "Got your nose!"

Silly time traveler

I’ve always wondered why neither the USSR nor the West ever seriously attempted to assassinate Hitler. From the USSR perspective they may have understandably been concerned about the other Allies deciding they preferred a military-led Germany to the Soviet Union. I was taught that the UK/US never tried it because they thought Hitler was a strategic liability to the Germans, although honestly that doesn’t sound very plausible to me