and you can formulate that kinda conspiracy even in light of this guys history as a whackjob? loser comes home to mommas basement after drinking all night and gets stupid and you wanna try to make an infowars type scenario?
That's why it works. You wouldn't approach a well-off model of good citizenry to do such a thing. You make the offer to the whack job - the screw up - the one with nothing going for them. It's obvious that the folks responsible for pretty much every shooting you'll hear about are disturbed individuals in some form or another.
I'm only trying to express my suspicion here.
We've even had politicians who hoped for more shootings to help them advance their anti-gun extremism (the politician out of Seattle, WA I believe it was). Anti-gun extremists
want more shootings. The bigger the body count the harder they high-five each other. The more intimidating the weapon the more they forward the e-mail about the story. I don't think it's far-fetched to think they'd (they'd meaning anti-gun extremists) set something like that in motion.
I'm not creating a conspiracy here, man. I'm pointing out a
possible natural (and devastating) progression of things.
far-fetched
/ˈfɑrˈfɛtʃt/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [fahr-fecht] Show IPA
–adjective
improbable; not naturally pertinent; being only remotely connected; forced; strained: He brought in a far-fetched example in an effort to prove his point.
Also, farfetched.
Origin:
1575–85
Related forms:
far-fetchedness, farfetchedness, noun
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farfetched
adjective
highly imaginative but unlikely; "a farfetched excuse"; "an implausible explanation"
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
Steve:
Sorry, I don't have citations handy. It's been discussed in-depth on THR and I believe here on APS too, possibly. A search ought to yield some results. It's too early in the morning for me to mess with the search function though.