- Aug 17, 2006
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They are like the 9/11 truthers.
Howard "used" Port Arthur to tighten up gun laws = he must have ordered it
The US gov "used" 9/11 to enact every bit of domestic spying, etc etc that they wanted to bring in but couldn't = they must have ordered it
Because 35 people needed to die for that to happen.
Three or four deaths would have sparked a national outrage and started the discussion. Even a marksman deliberately missing people so that there were actually no casualties may have had the desired effect, as people looked at how many rounds were fired and how many deaths there 'could have been' rather than how many deaths there were. 35 deaths was ridiculously unnecessary, if the motivation was simply to push through the gun control legislation.