The Colorado Massacre

The barbarism engulfing Western society continues to escalate.  Most of the barbarism is now systemic (e.g., government violence unleashed from legal restraints, a "culture" that scorns virtue while praising vice, etc.).  But this act of barbarism is a solar flare erupting amidst general chaos.  I can make an educated guess why this studious and intelligent young man lost his marbles, but I won't offer it before learning more facts. 

For now, I'll observe simply that the political reaction is opportunistic and utterly predictable.  The state craves crisis to justify expanding; more often than not, the state generates crisis and builds its own destructive power in a feedback loop of lawlessness, but sometimes a crisis is handed to the state on a silver platter like this.  Although far more people die in car crashes than in shooting rampages, it is the gun rather than the automobile that the state will seek to take away from us.  Why?  For the same reason the Framers added the Second Amendment to the Constitution -- the state fears an armed populace.  That is a healthy fear and easily worth the price of enduring incidents such as this, since the alternative would be far worse.  If the right to bear arms means I run the risk that a private citizen will gun me down, it is a risk that I (and any lover of liberty) prefer to trusting a large collection of armed men claiming the "right" to gun me down, as the federal government now declares it indeed possesses.  At least if I am armed, I have a fighting chance.  Better to die standing than live on my knees.       

UPDATE:  

An interesting article picks apart what is known so far and smells a rat.  I am in no position to say this was a false-flag event; given what I know about history and government, however, I can easily say that it's possible.