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human
ELI5: How are there not more high profile assassinations?

It seems like there's no shortage of guns, crazy people, and available public figures.  Even if Hollywood and video games have led me to believe sniper rifles are more accurate than they really are, you'd think there'd be more attempts at least.
gpt
The biggest thing is that there's no point in it.

In the west, if you assassinate a politician or business leader, somebody is going to step up and take their place and **keep doing the same shit**.

On top of the incredible amounts of security - even if they *did* manage to get a kill off, it's almost impossible they'd manage to get away without getting caught.

So... virtually guaranteed capture & imprisonment to kill somebody that's not going to change anything.  Anyone crazy enough to try probably isn't of sound enough mind to pull it off.