In the immediate wake of last week’s tragic shooting at Marysville-Pilchuck High School, the chatter on gun rights websites like NorthwestFirearms.com immediately focused on the obvious culprit: a Michael Bloomberg funded “false flag” conspiracy. Because cognitive dissonance is a powerful thing:
“Perhaps they organized his break up with the girl. Add a little fake cyber bullying, maybe a little behind the scenes mind control? Supply a few drugs?? Plant some ideas in his head?? Get him really ticked off at everybody! Help make things happen. Then hide their tracks and wait for the shooting to begin.”
And that was one of the more thoughtful posts; at least he prefaced his paranoid fantasy with the word “if.” You should watch the video that attempts to connect the shooting to Bloomberg, pondering “what are the odds” of it happening just two weeks before the election? (Or rather, you shouldn’t watch it.)
The conspiracy theorizing isn’t all that surprising. Some gun nuts are nutty. But it is a little frightening how people with guns are so quick to believe that gun control advocates would happily murder children to advance our political agenda. At least when we demonize the opposition as an imminent threat to our life and liberty, we lack the deadly weapons with which to act on our paranoia.
I say stop Snohomish County’s land use department before it kills again! Not shockingly, several families who lost a total of 14 relatives in the Oso landslide filed a lawsuit today against the county for issuing developers building permits for a known slide area, and also the state and the private landowner. A lot of North King County residents upset with Snohomish County’s slam-dunk approval of a massive residential development at Point Wells (King County gets the traffic and supplies the municipal services; Snohomish County pockets the property tax revenues) would love to see this lawsuit bankrupt Snohomish County and put its [ ] corrupt and/or [ ] incompetent (choose one or both) land use department out of business.
As for the Marysville shooting being a false flag, of course it was, just as Lincoln’s assassination was a CIA operation also intended to discredit guns.
ßomething stinks up north there.