Smudge
Bronze Member
- Joined
- Jul 9, 2010
- Messages
- 1,532
- Reaction score
- 44
- Golden Thread
- 0
- Location
- Central Florida
- Detector(s) used
- A Propointer tied to a stick
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
Maybe the problem is us.
We don't want to believe that a lone gunman, a loser by all accounts, could take out a president, especially like Kennedy, with one rifle, even though its been proved he could do it and was an excellent shot. It just scares the hell out of us to think something like that could happen.
Same with 9/11. We can't believe that a group of terrorists could launch such a sophisticated plot, bring down two of the tallest buildings in America, smash a hole in the Pentagon, darn near take out the White House/Capital and bring an entire nation to a standstill. Our minds want to believe that whole thing just had to be bigger.
But the truth is, Oswald most likely acted alone and the 9/11 attacks were carried out by a handful of determined men. Never underestimate the power of a single individual or a small group to alter the course of history.
We don't want to believe that a lone gunman, a loser by all accounts, could take out a president, especially like Kennedy, with one rifle, even though its been proved he could do it and was an excellent shot. It just scares the hell out of us to think something like that could happen.
Same with 9/11. We can't believe that a group of terrorists could launch such a sophisticated plot, bring down two of the tallest buildings in America, smash a hole in the Pentagon, darn near take out the White House/Capital and bring an entire nation to a standstill. Our minds want to believe that whole thing just had to be bigger.
But the truth is, Oswald most likely acted alone and the 9/11 attacks were carried out by a handful of determined men. Never underestimate the power of a single individual or a small group to alter the course of history.







