And yes, I've read the books/seen the films/attended the lectures/been to the site, so don't tell me to go study up and then get back to you.
Oswald acted alone. The more that investigative technology improves, the more that this stark fact is confirmed.
I turned fifteen the day JFK was assassinated. The next month my Dad gave me a shotgun for Christmas, so I became aware at an early age that the cries for gun control had already begun. That Oswald used a rifle bought through the mail fueled the solidifying liberal view that private gun ownership was dangerously unregulated and something had to be done.
The gun control debate merely simmered the next few years as the nation focused on Vietnam & domestic racial strife. The riots in Watts & later in Newark & Detroit actually strengthened the idea that having guns for personal defense was a good thing. Everything changed with the King & RFK assassinations in 1968; LBJ dropped out of running again & had nothing to lose by ramming through GCA-68 before he left office. “Never let a good crisis go to waste.”
From then until the Reagan era the war on gun ownership concentrated exclusively on handguns with an emphasis on marginalizing handgun owners as dangerous & antisocial - all the cop shows of the time carried this theme & do to this day.
The cry to ban “assault weapons” is a red herring IMO. Handguns are still the main object of the gungrabbers. And here’s a thought: Liberals like to deride AR-15 owners with “what are you going to do with that, hold off an army?” I think actually they fear handgun ownership more based on that famous article “What can a handgun do against an army?” Do you get my drift?
Sorry to wander off topic but it might not be inaccurate to say that the modern drive for confiscatory gun control all started with Lyndon Johnson.
Thank you.
True genius is sometimes difficult to recognize; true ignorance (like yours) on the other hand is always obvious...
There is no way that a single shooter with a leftover WW-II bolt-action rifle with iron sights or a DIY scope conversion from K-Mart could have done as much damage as was done in the five seconds that shooting lasted. There were three shooters, two with modern weapons, and it was well planned and organized.
Unlike stupidity, ignorance is curable. The book is a ten dollar item from Amazon.