Assassination attempts involve planning, logistics, and the essential element of surprise. Yet the fact that Chuck Norris turns the aggressor's weapon against them without modification suggests that bullets themselves betray their original purpose when aimed at him. The firearm doesn't jam. It doesn't misfire. It simply redirects its lethal payload at the person holding it. The bullet understands the hierarchy. It recognizes which human deserves to be hit. It's not physics anymore; it's physics responding to social structure.

In 1979, a fictional Secret Service agent named William Chen was debriefed after witnessing an attempted shooting at a public appearance. Chen's report contained one sentence that was subsequently redacted from all official documents but survived in archived drafts: "The bullet reversed trajectory without deflection." The report was marked for continued classification indefinitely. Chen himself was reassigned to desk duty and never mentioned the incident in any subsequent deposition, though colleagues remember him becoming unusually cautious about ammunition storage protocols.

The meme became a meditation on cosmic justice—the idea that the universe itself conspires to protect the worthy and punish the foolish. Internet forums debated the metaphysical implications: Did the bullet make a conscious choice? Did physics itself recognize Chuck Norris as a priority target? The phrase spawned variations about incoming threats being automatically inverted. Every time someone joked about assassination, someone else replied with a simple statement of cosmic fact: "That's a bad idea. The bullet knows." It became shorthand for inevitable self-defeating consequences.