That’s the thing. They aren’t all powerful. Their only real power derives from the terminal gullibility and chronic naivete of the public. I think that is changing. Are people waking up fast enough? That is the question.
“That’s the thing. They aren’t all powerful. Their only real power derives from the terminal gullibility and chronic naivete of the public.”
Well, then you can’t argue there is no increased risk to them if they staged a shooting, rather than just waiting for another one to happen. It’s especially silly to argue that the media covering for them would eliminate the risk, since we are all here on FR helping erode the power of that media every day, and have been for years. If the public was so gullible and easily manipulated by the media, then newspapers and network television would be swimming in profits, instead of lurching towards bankruptcy while we all circumvent them to get our news.