Everything is "simple" when you take speculation and pretend that is it fact.
One of them is wrong (or quoted incorrectly), not necessarily lying. That's your first mistake.
Then you go completely off the rails is in concluding that therefore there must have been a rifle in that bag.
Time after time, I ignore the "may have" or "I think, (suspect) (believe) threads so numerous here, that a middle
school student could predict are paths to nowhere. They are merely lounges for effortless chit-chat.
I try to present the lessons, again and again, that this is not simple, not the stuff for the intentionally, blissfully
unaware who do not know what they are unaware of yet do not indicate the slightest concern that unawareness
impairs analysis.
Today's example. Someone wiser than I remarked that those close to LHO silently shrank into the background after 12:30 on
friday while the nuts blossomed, loudly.
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