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In reply to the discussion: Justice for JFK [View all]stopbush
(24,393 posts)Do the Marines typically hand out the title of Sharpshooter to people who, in your words, "couldn't shoot straight according to his military record?" Does the USMC ranking of Sharpshooter denote that you are a shooter with "less than impressive firearms skills," in your words?
This is pathetic. Your latest premise is that Oswald couldn't possibly have been a great shot because he accidentally shot himself. What does one have to do with the other? Absolutely nothing.
As far as your assertion that I am "jumping back and forth from claiming he had improved his skills as a sharpshooter which would explain his ability to hit his target so skillfully, to trying to explain how someone who was not a skilled marksman was able to do it because the target conveniently became almost stationary." There's no jumping back and forth there. Do you have poor comprehension skills?
The fact is that the shots taken at JFK from the TSBD were EASY shots by any measure. You've read the WCR, so you know that the USMC testified that those shots were easy shots. The fact that Oswald was an excellent shot made them even easier. The fact that the limo was crawling along and that the grade of the street kept JFK on an even line of fire made already easy shots hopelessly easier. How easy? Easy enough that he made them even with a possibly misaligned scope. That's how easy. It probably helped Oswald that he had been taking practice fire. Practicing a skill keeps one in better shape, does it not? How else to explain that professional athletes regularly practice skills for which they already have an innate ability?
As far straying to explain away known facts, it is a known fact that Oswald attained the rank of USMC Sharpshooter, It's a fact. In fact, Oswald's USMC score books still exist, proving he was a Sharpshooter. Yet you keep circling back to add more verbiage to you erroneous conceit of a belief that Oswald was a poor shot. At this point, you're not really questioning Oswald's shooting abilities. You're calling into question the ability of the USMC to rate shooters to begin with. What purpose would it have served for the USMC to rate any bad shot as a Marine Sharpshooter? Oh, but in this case, we're talking about Oswald, the guy who you CTists can't bring yourself to believe killed JFK, so you've now moved from bashing Oswald to bashing the Marines. Nice.
You started out with some decent observations. Now, you're off in Republican-think, designing a new reality for yourself that is in direct contradiction to the facts in this case. A place where facts not only don't matter, but where you're allowed to have your own set of facts. Brilliant!
You're digging the hole deeper. Stop digging before you embarrass yourself even more.