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If there were a conspiracy, and I must stress I am convinced there is not, the shooter would be a patsy in every sense of the word.

The conspirators would find someone fairly close to being radicalized, claim they think like he does, convince him that he needs to make a statement, and offer him an opportunity for him to make that statement and get away with it.

Of course, they wouldn't tell him their real goals, and they act to ensure he doesn't live to tell the tale instead of getting him out.

Quite effective if you can pull it off. But like I said before, too many risks involved.

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Oh my!, in this day and age? We can't keep the stuff we're supposed to keep secret secret. If we fought WW 2 with the leaks we have now we'd have lost terribly since the enemy would know our every move. Something like this would have leaked out BEFORE it even happened.

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Oh quite agreed. The vast majority of conspiracy theories out there fail the simple test of "Could this be kept secret for any length of time."

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Too many people now a days feel that they can be like everyone else who wants to have their fame in the news for three to eight days for shooting people. The more damage you do the more the news will talk about you and make you infamous. This is why we are seeing more and more things like this.

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Yeah, it's simply another indication of our hedonistic, solipsistic society. I think all of this comes from the 24x7 news cycle and the internet.

Shooting At Members Of Congress

FBI: Attack on Republican lawmakers had no connection to terrorism. The attack on a group of Republican lawmakers at an Alexandria, Va., baseball field was not linked to terrorism, the FBI said in a briefing on Wednesday. Tim Slater, an assistant FBI director who has been heading the investigation, said the shooter, James Hodgkinson, acted alone and was known to have an "Anger management problem." Ref. USAToday.

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*laugh*, are they kidding me? He had an anger management issue? An anger management issue is yelling at people in the passing lane for driving too slowly. This guy tried to kill a member of Congress and had a hit list of others. He shot two cops. No, it isn't terrorism but it sure isn't an anger management issue either.

What it is is the divisive rhetoric we hear all the darn time any more that is made to divide us rather than unite us. We may be the United States of America but we are the divided people of America. We can't seem to find common ground and we'd rather hate those who disagree than listen… and it's starting at our colleges where the students can't even be civil enough to listen to an opposing point of view.