(10-02-2017, 10:31 PM)BIAD Wrote:(10-02-2017, 09:59 PM)Ninurta Wrote: The only thing I take issue with is his characterization of the event as a "false flag" - I haven't read anything to suggest it was an attack by a foreign power (other than the ISIS claim, which is ludicrous on the face of it), so no flags, falsified or otherwise, have come to the fore yet. The guy is pretty clearly neither North Korean nor middle eastern, so I'm not sure which country they would point at to lay the false flag at the feet of.
I agree with you, I doubt this is something from another country or a promoted terror-related
perception. But what it may be, I have no idea.
I would say it's a herding prod. They have some outcome in mind that they want to herd the general public towards. I've heard a lot of folks crying that there is going to be gun control talk for the next few months over this, but the flaw there, easily pointed out, is that none of the guns were legal or registered to begin with - so no new law would have prevented it. The ones already in place certainly didn't.
They may try to blame it on "right wingers", but the fatal flaw in that argument is that it was right wingers who were shot up here, just as it was Republican congressmen who were shot up on the ball field a couple months ago - I can't recall if that shooter lived through it or not, but I'm willing to bet not. Anyhow, that argument can be countered with the old "don't blame the victims" argument.
They might even be trying to get the public to accept tighter surveillance "for their own good", but I can't imagine tighter surveillance than this guy sailed right through - with a little help from his friends, no doubt.
Maybe they'll outlaw stockpiling ammunition - which is also ludicrous, since stockpiled ammo is useless without the firearms to fire it, and these were most likely illegal - if one does not care to break the law in acquiring automatic weapons, what is there to prevent him from breaking a new law against stockpiling ammunition? That reminds me - I need to go get more ammo, LOTS more, just in case...
So I'm sure it's some sort of herding prod to herd us in a desired direction, I just haven't figured out what that direction IS.
I'm sure we'll all hear in the next few days, though. Be watching for it and expecting it.
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