When you get to wife #3 you can call it a quorum, not a conspiracy.
It's too bad we have to eat our own, even here. This forum supposedly bars personal attacks, so you would think that those charged with maintaining order would follow that dictum most scrupulously. You'd think; you'd be wrong.
A lot about Newtown just doesn't wash, and my view is just that we need to find out why, especially given that this is the straw that is meant to break our backs. The bogie of "conspiracy theories" is overdone, but why noodle about semantics. The point is that there are people who will lie, cheat, steal, and murder to further their agenda. Whether they do this in formal conspiracies, shared agendas, or just as swimmers in the same cultural stream doesn't matter as much as what is being done and why and to whom for what purpose. There is a lot we don't know, can't know, will never probably know, but we should try to discern its outlines, if only by circumstantial evidence, as well as we can--for our own self-protection.
Clique
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=JjkQSREjxH0#t=30sClique
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=YfjTZLxekig#t=45sBoom.
Inherent in most all human organizations. Lots of them can be explained by analogy to junior high school.
As for the Adam Lanza deal, sometimes a
cigar 10mm is just a
cigar 10mm(0).
Yes, sometimes meaning can be inferred from firearms purchases/ownership. For instance, if the only thing you knew about Farmer A was that he owned only a single shot 12ga shotgun and Farmer B that he owned only a single centerfire rifle, odds are that A is from east of the Mississippi and B is more likely from out west. Does anyone think there is no correlation between military service and Beretta M92 ownership? RG revolvers, Raven semi-autos and
family income? Multiple comblock rifles (AK, SKS, M-N) in the same cartridge, spam cans of that milsurp cartridge, and
preppers? Not so far-fetched.
FWIW, I am not seeing Lanza's Glock 10mm as anything other than chance/impulse. I recall one of those Shooter's Bible/Annual Handgun Skinny books that contained 20+ magazine articles plus a catalog of (then) currently produced guns from years back(1). The author/editor/collator was a big fan of 10mm and Glock 10mm in particular. LOTs of them available via used books stores. Perhaps Mama or Adam Lanza read that and went all 10mm Glock-happy. You know the kinda folks I am talking about. You may have been the sort of folks I am talking about.
Of course, what is news and what isn't news has been determined, in large part, by the New York Times for decades. Even many small-town newspapers look to the NYT for "what is fit to print." It is no secret that the NYT has always pushed its own agenda and had turned the agenda-pushing knob up to eleven in the last decade or so. Sometimes it gets a big head of steam behind it (current gun-grabbing bubble, gay pseudo-marriage) and sometimes not so much (Women must be allowed to join Augusta National!). This can be carried over to the MSM in a more diluted fashion. MSM, gov't functionaries, policritters, high finance....all pull from the same colleges and end up with similarly-minded folk with many shared assumptions. You don't need an explicit conspiracy to get the results we see. Though, there is a conspiracy in many cases. What was Journolist, but a loose conspiracy by MSM folks to promote their agendas and destroy their enemies? (Think that has stopped?) Climategate email & source code releases (I, II, and now III) demonstrate dictionary-definition conspiracy. Hard to argue, "There is no conspiracy" when conspirators' own communications say otherwise.
(0) FTR, I wish I had bought one of those old S&W 10mm semi-autos when S&W bumped uglies with Clinton and gun shops were shucking off S&W product like prom dresses.
(1) The first such book I ever read as a kid had Bren Ten pistols listed.