JFK Assassination Forum

The problem with both Zartman and Niedernut is they think (or thought) they were there to be Truth Police at the EF-JFKA. And they knew The Truth. Niedernut also had an insufferable personality.

Zartman actually posted on EF-JFKA that he thought LNT'ers should be banned from the EF-JFKA, and then he later became a moderator. In other words, the EF-JFKA was not a debate forum, but a CT cocoon.

I suppose it does not matter much; the readership of the EF-JFKA must be in the dozens, in a nation of 330 million. Simkin says he spends 10 hours a day writing history tomes. For who? Not the EF-JFKA, which Simkin says is a disappointment to him, due to all the insults that go on.

It looks like the EF-JFKA will continue to peter out; perhaps Niedernut's moderation will ultimately prove lethal, in combination with Simkin's senescence.

I invite EF-JFKA'ers to join this forum and at least try to have collegial conversations.

I'm not a hunter at all. I shoot paper targets. Living in a rural area I have learned a little about deer hunting. Ohio does not allow deer hunting with rifles other than muzzle loaders which have their own season which greatly reduces the number of hunters in the field. Ohio deer hunters shoot deer with deer slugs fired from shotguns. We have bow hunters too but they share the primitive weapons season with the muzzle loaders.

A deer hunter will wait for an optimal shot because he knows he has to score a hit with the first shot because if he misses, the deer will be long gone before he ever gets off a second shot.

Having his intended target take off if he missed his first shot was of less concern to Oswald than to a deer hunter. Ideally, that's what should have happened but Greer was slow to react. Apparently, Oswald decided like the hockey players, the more shots he took, the more likelihood he would score a fatal hit. He had chambered his fourth and final round before deciding it wasn't necessary.

It was Oswald's decision to make and there's no reason to think he would have made the same decision as you. Since he succeeded, I see no point in second guessing his choice.

Zartman suspended me for just replying to one of his emails, saying that I was arguing. He always goes after me on the forum.

One might also add - so I will! - that explaining CE 543 as a dry-firing shell is the explanation most in accord with Occam's Razor. MTG consistently violates Occam's Razor to an almost unbelievable degree. Given two possible explanations, MTG always opts for the most complex, conspiratorially-oriented. and frankly least believable one. ALWAYS. This is precisely why I started my thread encouraging CTers to focus on plausibility. CTers like MTG are embarrassments to rational thought and analysis.