Send in the drones

 What do both attempts to assassinate Trump have in common?

Lack of surveilance of the peripheries. Yes, I get it: Not enough men to walk the perimeters and check such things, even when the audience is shouting shooter shooter.

What makes it worse was that in Butler PA, the USSS was offered a drone to help them check things out, but turned down the offer.

A reporter asked Rowe if the agency used a drone to enhance surveillance at the rally, specifically a drone that local law enforcement offered to loan them. Rowe said he’s aware of reports that local law enforcement had offered a drone, but the Secret Service declined. Rowe said the Secret Service is now working to add drones and other unmanned aerial surveillance to its security protocols.

LOL. Italics mine.

maybe we need to start a "Go Fund Me" page to buy drones for the USSS so they can use them while the paper pushers are busy doing their thing.

And this action might need to be done quickly: Because the guy who tried to shoot Trump in Florida was right outside the fence. Luckily a guy on foot spotted him even though he was hidden by bushes, but in the future they might not be that lucky.

I haven't seen any MSM articles on why the USSS is lacking such basic equipment.  Maybe their plan for "diversity" doesn't include any deer hunters or veterans who would be aware that they aren't using basic equipment like drones with cameras to protect America's VIPs.

Oh but he was hiding behind a bush and probably wouldn't have been spotted by a drone, I can imagine them (and the MSM) saying. 

Attention shoppers: as any Deer Hunter can tell you, you can buy a drone with a thermal imaging camera for less than 100 USD from Amazon

Indeed, the use of drone by hunters has become common in recent years. From Autel:

Modern hunters don't need to stalk or ambush hunting targets in one place for long periods of time, and can easily pinpoint the animal's location using a camera. A quadcopter drone with an aerial view makes it easy to determine where prey hides and moves. Drones with night vision and thermal cameras are primarily used in enterprise-level applications such as search and rescue, power line inspection, wildlife monitoring, and hunting. If you're in Texas, you'll find that wild hogs are infested here, and hunting has become a pastime with a populace.

of course, this takes the fun out of hunting, so some states have banned their use to spy where the deer are hiding, a practice that is so common that it is banned in some states, although you can use a drone to follow the wounded deer into the bush to retrieve the body when he collapses.

Now, you notice I am not talking about sophisticated drone, but those available to the average good old boy hunter.

yet as the Ukraine war revealed: Even those drones can be used by the military to spy on who is coming for you.

StrategyPage has a long essay here on how drone warfare has changed the way war is fought: not just by the big expensive ones, but by the civilian ones that Ukrainians are upgrading in their garages to find where the bad guys and their weapons were, but also using them as small flying bombs to take the bad guys out.

More about the use of drones in modern warfare can be found via the SmallWarJournal does a book review on the recently published De Gruyter Handbook of Drone Warfare.

all of this is not new technology. So what if the technology behind this display is used to attack important politicians?

Tom Clancy, call your office. Washington DC needs Jack Ryan to help them protect the president.