The smell of gunpowder

[John Corbett]

In a number of threads, people have brought up the fact that people in the motorcade smelled gunpowder as they were going past the GK. To that my reaction has always been SO WHAT. I think we can safely say no one fired a weapon on Elm St. so the people who got a whiff of gunpowder residue when they were on Elm St. give us no clue as to where that residue was discharged. I thought of this following the recent assassination attempt on President Trump and some of the people smelled the gunpowder in the ballroom even though the assailant never discharged his weapon there. The residue that people smell can drift quite a distance from it's origin. This gives us no indication where that residue was discharged from.

[Royell Storing]

In a number of threads, people have brought up the fact that people in the motorcade smelled gunpowder as they were going past the GK. To that my reaction has always been SO WHAT. I think we can safely say no one fired a weapon on Elm St. so the people who got a whiff of gunpowder residue when they were on Elm St. give us no clue as to where that residue was discharged. I thought of this following the recent assassination attempt on President Trump and some of the people smelled the gunpowder in the ballroom even though the assailant never discharged his weapon there. The residue that people smell can drift quite a distance from it's origin. This gives us no indication where that residue was discharged from.

   Your "So what?" is non responsive. You also are using this often. And on top of all of this, YOU initiated the topic under discussion. Think things through and have an opinion. "So what?" is not an opinion. It is on the level of "Whatever".  With respect to the "gunpowder smell", you know the direction the wind was blowing at 12:30 PM on 11/22/63. Your mentioning "drift" only reinforces my "think things through" advice.

[John Corbett]

   Your "So what?" is non responsive. You also are using this often. And on top of all of this, YOU initiated the topic under discussion. Think things through and have an opinion. "So what?" is not an opinion. It is on the level of "Whatever".  With respect to the "gunpowder smell", you know the direction the wind was blowing at 12:30 PM on 11/22/63. Your mentioning "drift" only reinforces my "think things through" advice.

I do have an opinion and I stated it clearly. The smell of gunpowder is not an indication of where the smell originated. As for the drift, you don't think the gunpowder residue in the air is going to drift?

[Royell Storing]

 You said, "... smelled gunpowder as they were GOING PASSED the GK". The wind would Not permit a "drifting" gunpowder odor from the TSBD to the GK.

[Tom Graves]

You said, "... smelled gunpowder as they were GOING PASSED the GK". The wind would Not permit a "drifting" gunpowder odor from the TSBD to the GK.

No, he didn't. He said "... smelled gunpowder as they were going past the GK."

Is English your second language, Sonderführer Storing?