Yes, there is mass hysteria, and sometimes FR readers have it too.
There is no conspiracy. There are a lot of copycat mental cases who see the news and the attention given to the murderers, and say “I’ll show em.”
The government is opportunistic but they don’t plan and plot these things.
Did they "plan and plot" Fast and Furious?
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Plan? No that they don't.
They do do everything they can to set the stage, place the actors, promote the performance, sell the tickets, and pop the popcorn.
And when the performance "inevitably" happens, they just happen to have the legislation already written and ready to pass and be signed into law, why, you don't even need to read it before you vote on it!
Curiously enough, the prepackaged legislation never increases freedom, never reduces taxes, never eliminates regulations.
But plan a given individual event, no, they don't do that, do they?...