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To: The KG9 Kid
"... Now you think that disbelief in the magic bullet theory is irrational?"

Yes, Tpaine. Moreover, I think the 'Single Bullet Theory' isn't so irrational at all: The 'Single Bullet Theory'. I don't see anything particularly magical about it.

Nice link. As is typical, it raises just as many debatable questions about the magic bullet as it claims to answer.
Thus, it is not logical on your part to insist that those who acknowledge the existence of major flaws in the SBT are 'irrational'.

We've got NFL quarterbacks that could have hit President Kennedy in the head with a football thrown from the roof of the TSBD, but a USMC-trained marksman can't make a five-inch group at 80-some yards with a decent high-powered rifle with a 4x telescopic sight?

Sure he could have. That's not the issue. The problem is the SBT, and always has been, since the flawed 'report' came out.

If Oswald would have instead bought a surplus M1 Garand, it would have been over in one round. It just wasn't a hard shot, and Kennedy and Connally were lined up well enough as shown in the link above. Oswald's only real 'incompetence' here is that he actually missed once, as I see it.

Yep, you admit he missed once, but you can't admit the possiblity that this miss casts serious doubts on the SBT? -- Who's being irrational now?

Addressing the comments I made about people being 'irrational', I'm generally talking about posters mentioning 'exploding bullets' and the like. The 'Grassy Knoll' is a crappy place to shoot from. It's a 90-degree deflection shot at the target. The good position is where Oswald shot from.

Indeed it is. And there is nothing to exclude the possiblity of another shooter having been there. We simply will never know.
We only know for sure that there are serious flaws in the Warren Report, & in particular in the SBT.

It is illogical to say otherwise.

552 posted on 08/30/2003 11:21:56 AM PDT by tpaine ( I'm trying to be Mr Nice Guy, but politics keep getting in me way. ArnieRino for Governator!)
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To: tpaine
There's nothing out of the ordinary in the mechanics of the shooting. Bullet count, achievability, time, ballistics. The alternate views don't make sense.

Why stretch credility to come up with any number of vacant reasons?

553 posted on 08/30/2003 11:31:06 AM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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