This is a response to the above debate.
Late last year, Edgar Maddison Welch set out on a 360-mile drive from his home in Salisbury, North Carolina, to the Comet Ping Pong restaurant in Washington DC. His trip was inspired by a desire to investigate human trafficking. According to New York Times reporter Adam Goldman, Welch had initially heard through “word of mouth” about a child sex trafficking ring run out of the basement of this restaurant with Hillary Clinton’s help or, at the very least, her knowledge.
Further research, which he conducted on the internet, appeared to confirm this story. Although Welch initially intended only to investigate things on the ground, his mission evolved once he arrived in DC. Motivated by a desire to rescue the victims of child trafficking that he believed to be held in the pizzeria, Welch entered the premises armed with an assault rifle, which he subsequently fired inside the restaurant. No trafficking victims were found.
