The State of Assassination

Recently there was an attempt on the life of President Donald Trump and I want to explore why that happened.  Now the answer might seem obvious, people think his election would be a disaster for the United States and the world.  But there is a deeper level that needs to be examined, why did they believe this, was it credible and what can be done, besides assassination to solve the problem, if any.

Firstly let's assume that the motive for the attempted murder was what people think it was, to prevent him becoming President again.   This is not a certainty but it's highly likely.  So what does preventing him becoming President accomplish?  It effectively transfers control of the organization of coercion into hands other than his, presumably those of Kamala Harris.  When looked at this way, as the transfer of the control of millions of troops, trillions of dollars worth of military equipment, trillions more of surveillance equipment, tens of thousands of prison cells, hundreds of thousands of regulatory bureaucrats and trillions of pieces of information on US citizens and others, it's a wonder it doesn't happen more often.