Please don't tell me you subscribe to the assorted conspiracy theories out there -- that the latest shootings are a false flag operation...or that this is part of a coordinated effort to unseat Trump... or to confiscate guns...or...?
I do think there is a pattern or some common traits among the shooters as I described previously. And those traits may be exploited by certain hate websites and other such media.
I am only making an observation.
First off, there
is a coordinated effort to disarm the American People, and it has been ongoing since the NFA of 1934 was passed. That much should be evident. We have not acquired any more Rights, nor any less infringements to the RKBA by legislation since, but the Right has been successively and incrementally infringed. The only infringement at the Federal Level to have been rescinded was done by a sunset clause in the law itself, not any action taken (the Clinton Era "Assault Weapons" Ban).
Notable Democrats have been so brazen as to voice their opposition to gun ownership, advocate confiscation, and to incrementally damage the ability to exercise the RKBA since the 60s. That much is not just evident, they use it from the campaign stump, and have made such comments on the record.
This stuff is an ongoing assault on a Right. Frankly, Trump is irrelevant (except that he has caved on the RKBA, even just a little in the ban on bump stocks). He's just another player on that stage, but the show has been ongoing for decades.
Whether that effort would resort to false flag operations, I do not pretend to know.
It is also a matter of record that Federal Agencies have gone so far as to show people how to mix explosives (WTC bombing in '93), and frequently solicit the illegal actions of all sorts, from NeoNazis to Jihadis, trolling for people to reel in. That some of that might slip the reins there and actually happen, well, think about that. Keep "Fast and Furious" and other operations, including the one to round up Abdul Rachman which resulted in a bombing, and I think we know that answer, too. Have faith that the culture of CYA will distance players from any failed operation where the target actually succeeded in performing their act of mayhem. Such is bureaucracy, and no one wants to lose their jobs. It took a whistleblower in the BATFE to expose Fast and Furious, and likely we never would have heard about it otherwise, just the surge in statistics showing more guns from the US used in Cartel crime (also to limit the RKBA, ultimately, here in the USA).
Another being that whenever these whackos cut loose, it is the law abiding gun owner who ends up getting gigged, and the NRA gets the blame (Utter nonsense--in a half century of reading The American Rifleman, not once have I seen anything advocating going somewhere and shooting up a crowd of people). A law abiding gun owner needs a seriously compelling reason to shoot anyone, even in defense of self or family.
Now, if that had only happened once, knowing the heartfelt desires of half or more of the Congress to eliminate the RKBA, I might view these events differently. But the Dems will be there, hat in hand, before the blood dries, demanding to demand they inflict more infringements on my (our) civil rights in another impotent attempt to "
do something", which will only result in the loss of our Rights, or serve to make these incidents worse.
The (MSM) optics almost always omit the fact that those who might be best situated to do something about the situation before it developed into wholesale slaughter are constrained by the very laws they abide by, to NOT carry in these establishments where these incidents occur. These laws were often passed at the behest of the same people who have evinced a desire to take away our guns. That legislative hobbling also virtually guarantees a higher body count, which, in turn, makes even more fodder for those who would further restrict the RKBA.
I agree there is a common pattern in the shooters. Often mentally questionable or downright imbalanced, somewhat delusional about the grandeur they will achieve, often (were any not?) on psychotropic medication, or having just quit it, which can be even worse. They travel to places they do not live to slaughter people, as a rule, (but not always). They are often described as long term social outcasts, but who would want to hang with someone who is not only batsh*t crazy, but evincing violent tendencies, too?
Now that description also fits anyone who is ripe for recruitment into most any violent scheme from Jihad to some sort of save the planet whackoism, to the Manson Family (although I think the application period has expired on that one), and beyond, which naturally begs the question of whether or not they
have been recruited for, or encouraged to, commit their particular mayhem.
That could only be determined by the careful examination of any communications and associations they may have had, personal and virtual, and if the people (like the FBI) doing the examining want to turn a blind eye and reinforce the concept of random slaughter (always more intimidating than someone who kills for a reason), they can milk that over there on the Left side of the Aisle to gain public support for the destruction of a fundamental Civil Right--which, incidentally, is their stated goal.
I must state that considering that elements of the FBI were involved in the destruction of evidence in the instance of Hillary's communications, painting a well coached whacko as a random nutcase would be child's play.
Cui bono?It's an election year coming up, and having crazies running around shooting places up only benefits one side in all this.
So, before you go slinging any labels about conspiracies, please just take a look at what is happening.
