But common sense ALONE tells a reasonable person that a band of
assassins wouldn't be casually taking a rifle from a pick-up truck on
Elm Street IN HEAVY TRAFFIC for all to see just an hour or two before
JFK is shot from the very same Plaza. That's hilarious all by itself.

I guess Ruby and his weapon-toting co-conspirator wanted as many
Dallasites as possible to see the rifle....instead of utilizing a much
less-noticeable method of delivering the rifle to the proverbial
"Knoll Killer".

I'm wondering how the CTers who believe Mercer AND also believe Ed
Hoffman's story can somehow "tie" those two things together -- i.e.:

Mercer sees an ALREADY-ASSEMBLED rifle being unloaded from a truck.
But Hoffman sees a Grassy Knoll gunman take his weapon apart and put
it in a container of some kind.

So, why did Mercer see an assembled rifle, instead of a container
which could have held a broken-down rifle (per Hoffman's tale)?

I guess the killers couldn't have cared less about letting many people
see the fully-assembled gun shortly before the assassination, per
Mercer's account.

After all, a matter of only hours later IN THE WAKE OF A PRESIDENTIAL
ASSASSINATION IN THE VERY SAME LOCATION, who's going to remember a
little trivial thing like an air-conditioner repairman carrying a
RIFLE in Dealey Plaza?

LOL.

Was that the idiotic mindset of these reckless plotters?

More details on Julia Ann Mercer's story can be found in the middle of
the following webpage: