Because you haven't been in the position he was hunting, and when following a potential shot it is very easily to lose track of your surroundings, making it potential for an incident like that to happen when your hunting buddy wanders off from the line you've set up.
And the power of the vice president is overrated. if the president doesn't die he's little more than a figurehead.
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