<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">The guy who stormed the pizza restaurant (<span style="font-size: 16px; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Edgar Maddison Welch) </span>and fired shots said so and he went to jail and paid damages over it. See:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/fruzsinaeordogh/2016/12/07/with-pizzagate-is-cybersteria-the-new-normal/#1ee527b02b68">https://www.forbes.com/sites/fruzsinaeordogh/2016/12/07/with-pizzagate-is-cybersteria-the-new-normal/#1ee527b02b68</a></div><div><br></div><div>This was widely reported at the time. Do you think it was made up? The simplest explanation here seems to be that Welch believed the conspiracy theory. He said so later in court and actually apologized for the incident.<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">http://author.to/DanUst</span></p></div></div></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jun 27, 2020, at 11:55 AM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal">> <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Clark via extropy-chat<br><br><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span class="gmaildefault"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">> </span></span><i>What is an “assault rifle” please?</i><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">>…So I guess the most outrageous thing about the entire Pizzagate </span><span class="gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">b</span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt">usiness</span><span class="gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> i</span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt">s not Hillary Clinton and Bill Gates running a child sex slave ring out </span><span class="gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">of </span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt">a basement pizza parlor but my use of the term "assault rifle".</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">John K Clark<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Can we prove any of those stories were true? If a guy stormed a Pizza house, can we determine if the Clinton/Gates conspiracy had anything to do with it? If not, why do we bother repeating the conspiracy theory? What if the guy was just nuts?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Can you define the term assault rifle? Please do.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">There is a reason why I went off on that tangent: lawmakers do not know how to define that term either. They are sure assault rifles are bad, but they cannot distinguish between assault rifles and non-assault rifles. Can you? How?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike</p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><style><!--
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