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JohnM
You are the poster child for cherry-picking and making dubious assumptions.
I notice you said nothing about the footage of the 1966 Charles Whitman shooting in Texas. I notice you made no attempt to explain the smoke seen in the Wiegman film. I notice you made no attempt to explain the puffs of smoke seen by six witnesses during the shooting.
Here's one short segment of footage of the Charles Whitman shooting that shows visible puffs of smoke:
Footage of Charles Whitman shooting, 01Here's a much longer segment that shows numerous visible puffs of smoke:
Footage of Charles Whitman shooting, 01 (1:09 to 1:33)Or, check out this footage of the SLA shootout with police in LA in 1974 that shows obvious gun smoke that hangs in the air for quite some time -- the camera pans away from the large cloud of gun smoke, but it is obvious the smoke would have remained visible for some time if the camera had kept filming it:
Footage of 1974 SLA shootout (0:05 to 0:09)In an article about the 1970 shooting of two college students at Jackson State University, a
Baltimore Sun article noted that "
the gun smoke was thick" (
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2000/05/15/an-overshadowed-anniversary-killings-two-people-were-killed-by-police-gunfire-at-jackson-state-college-in-mississippi-30-years-ago-but-few-besides-those-directly-affected-remember/).
In describing a 2024 shooting at a high school graduation ceremony in LA, one witness said they "could see the gun smoke":
You could see the gun smoke, gun shells hitting the floor, and then they kind of peeled off. (https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/la-graduation-ceremony-for-at-promise-high-schoolers-ends-in-brawl-police-say-los-angeles-california-operation-graduation-juvenile-court-students-education-crisis-in-the-classroom)A CBS News report about a 2024 shooting at a religious gathering in Philadephia notes that one witness said they "cold see the gun smoke because it was very close":
"I was like, it's just another beautiful day and gunshots started ringing and you could see the gun smoke because it was very close," Fareed Abdullah, who witnessed the shooting, said. (https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/shooting-eid-al-fitr-west-philadelphia-community-leaders-reaction/)A
Los Angeles Times article about the 2016 terrorist attack in San Bernadino, CA, notes that "the gun smoke made it difficult to see":
In the chaos, one round pierced a fire sprinkler pipe, causing water to gush from the ceiling. The gun smoke made it difficult to see. Many got out the doors, and escaped outside or barricaded themselves in other rooms in the building. (https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-san-bernardino-terror--20160909-snap-story.html) I personally saw Army M-16 rifles emit visible puffs of smoke many times on Army rifle ranges. You can find numerous referenes to gun smoke, thick gun smoke, gun smoke impeding visibility, etc., in soldier accounts from the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
BTW, did you ever retract your howler that the HSCA PEP found "massive parallax" in their analysis of the backyard rifle photos? (In fact, the PEP found that the parallax between the photos was so small it could only be detected with “computer-assisted photographic evaluation” and with “examination under magnification with magnifiers and microscopes.”)