You should be thankful that you’re alive, too. Because if things had gone just slightly differently, you’d be fighting for survival instead of reading this.

I’m hearing a lot of stories about what people think happened with the failed assassination attempt against Donald Trump. As less speculative information comes to light, the Secret Service and local law enforcement looks worse and worse.

But as bad as things might be for some of the most infamous dodgers of accountability in all the world’s history, if any of the bullets had hit square with the failed shooter’s intended target, we’d be in an entirely different country, right now.

Let’s talk about it. And be warned, this will get graphic.

If you really wanted to see something sad, then picture the immediate aftermath of any of the missed bullets hitting their mark. The assembled crowd and the viewers on live television would have been treated to an exploded head.

At that point, the tens of millions of people who voted for Trump in the last election would have thrown their hands up, and said “I guess we don’t have a leader anymore, or a cause.”, then go back home, where they would then just consume product, and decide to study Marxism.

Except that wouldn’t have happened. Not even close. What would have happened instead is that America would have exploded into unbelievable violence.

If you want advice on how you could survive in such a scenario, I could say this: stay inside. Hopefully, the food you’d have on-hand would be enough to last you a while. Prop furniture against the door, and don’t open it unless you recognize the voice of your family. And pay attention for the sound of alarms.

I know that this might sound like I’m describing the worst-case scenario for dramatic effect. But I think most people have no idea how bad things could have been. The number of people who voted for Trump in the last election numbered around 75 million. Imagine if even half of them decided to go door-to-door in a huge game of find the leftist.

There would have been unimaginable carnage.

Emergency services would not have been able to respond to all calls. They might only be able to respond to a few, thanks to the few remaining with sufficient normalcy bias. But they too would have families and a sense of self-preservation, so the police, ambulances, and firefighters would be largely out.

Stores would have been raided, and with supply lines disrupted, you’d have been left with whatever you have on hand. Would it be enough to last you for weeks?

Just based on that, large cities would have become real-life Battle Royales.

At that point, you’d probably care less who the president is, as government probably would have little impact on your life unless you lived in the few areas where martial law could be successfully established.

Then there’s what would have happened on an international stage. With the United States being preoccupied with its own affairs, rogue states would proceed to do as they please. Ukraine would be taken by Russia immediately, and Israel and Taiwan would likely be invaded, too. The world would quickly fall apart as the U.S. would lose any capacity to intervene. That some rogue states might have deployed radiological weapons would have been a possibility.

The question of how long it would be before the United States would have returned to being any sort of organized society would have been difficult to determine, but it’s possible that maps would have needed redrawn, and skylines could have changed.

And thankfully, we don’t live in a world where this scenario came about. This is because three bullets all missed as Trump moved his head to the side at just the right moment.

A fraction of an inch and a fraction of a second was just how close we were to a different world, one that would have been brought about by a defective boy who managed to elude an incompetent security apparatus.

It gets me to thinking that it’s likely that Trump benefited from divine intervention. If that’s true, we all did. Most of us might not have even considered how bad things could have been. We might have even gone from fretting over frivolous things like whether our shoes match our shirts, to fighting for our lives.

And when it comes down to it, there’s no telling when that might happen, anyway. The fact is, we live in a dangerous would, and our society might be hinging on a tenuous factor.

Interestingly, it was only days beforehand that current president Joe Biden was passionately defending his decision to stay in the race. In an interview on live television, he even stated that he’d remain in the race unless God himself told him to withdraw.

I don’t know whether Trump narrowly surviving an assassination attempt would have been the sign that he was looking for. But what I can say is this: if you’re going to invoke the greatest name in Heaven over something you might do, you’d better be ready to do it.