“We will, in the coming days, doubtless hear that the terrorist was a lone wolf, that he did not belong to any known terrorist organization, that there are no wider threats.”
This will be the Obama mantra, while each future attack will increase the rant for more gun control, and Obama’s failures go unmentioned and buried by the mainstream media. And the slaughter will not only be unabated, but will likely intensify.
For some reason, this reminds me of a story out of the Soviet Union. There was a mass murderer in Moscow, but the authorities did not want anyone to know. That is because communism is supposed to be such a perfect governing system that problems like murder would not exist; letting the public know there was a mass murderer would have put the lie to that narrative. So the authorities quietly investigated and found a perpetrator, tried and executed him. Wrong guy. So they looked and found another perpetrator, tried and executed him. Again, wrong guy. I don't recall how many innocent men they tried and executed before finally getting the mass murderer.
What you said has me picturing that same sort of situation happening in the US. Secretly arresting and executing innocent people, because letting the public know that a violent Islamist is on the loose would embarrass the government...