I have a great deal of respect, and kind feeling towards you, and whatever our disagreement on this subject. isn't going to change that respect.
There's a large body of research into misuse of guns and legislative approaches to it. I've studied it in a fairly serious way for just coming up thirty years later this year.
Summer 1988 was the first mass public shooting in Britain, that was what got me started.
Over that time, I've read the research on both sides, and communicated with some of the researchers, including veteran British researcher Colin Greenwood, who was a police superintendent. And some of the American researchers, including John R Lott, who incidentally began with an anti civilian gun ownership viewpoint. His research findings converted him to a strongly pro viewpoint.
I actually had an offer to train as a gunsmith when I was in my teens, but studied and worked in engineering instead. That said, I worked pretty much full time shoots from the middle of August last year, through to the end of the pheasant season 15 days ago.
Twenty nine years and however many months immersion in the subject, and yeah, unfortunately I look at these events analytically now.
Based on experience, I've very little faith in the official narratives. I've heard the inside stories from people who have been there in a SWAT type capacity, and of insiders from the firearms licensing side. There's a lot of bungling and politics that doesn't get into the official narrative when someone gets shot by a pleb.
Add to that, the historical side.
What follows is not theory, it's well estabilised historical fact. It's in the light of what follows, and like events (there are more), that some people are on the lookout for Inconsistencies, and are sceptical about the all too clean official narratives.
You will have heard of the supposed spate of anarchist bombings in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
Those that weren't outright fakes by the police (the same length of gas piping was presented as the latest bomb on at least seven different occasions by Chicago police - in hoaxes that were mirrored more recently by the faked explosive finds by County Donegal Police in the the 1980s),
Or hyped by sensationalist journalists eager to sell papers,
were usually set up by police. Eg a young man killed by the bomb he was carrying outside Greenwich observatory had been given the bomb to carry by a policeman!
The anarchist terror scare was largely fabricated. Sure, there were probably odd copycats amongst it, but not many.
The truth of the supposedly left wing terror in Europe from 1968 through to about 1990 including the Milan and bologna bombings and the kidnap and murder of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro, began to be admitted to the Italian parliament by the then serving prime minister, Giulio Andreotti. He'd been involved in the movement behind them. They were "false flag" operations, carried out by a parallel structure set up by the allies after world war 2, known as "Gladio"
Similar structures were found to exist in every western European country including non nato Switzerland and Sweden. Britain and Ireland were the only places where such parallel structures were never admitted to.
Whether those who suspect false flags in mass shootings are right or wrong in their suspicions. It's important that those who claim coercive power, should feel subject to the utmost scruitiny and suspicion.
The results of past false flags have carried terrible cost in human lives. After all Hitler rose to the Chancellorship on the back of a campaign of terrorism perpetrated by his party's thugs, but blamed on Jews and international socialists.
