RE: Utica College was placed on lockdown due to 'Credible Threat'
Yeah, for all we know this is someone who isn't prepared for a test and wants more time to study.
If you stop forcing schools to be unarmed, you take away the honeypot target in the first place, and cops can be a little less sensitive now that they know the school isn't a sitting duck any time they miss a clue or are a second late. And the equation changes to where it's a lot harder to get such a rise out of people with a phone call.
People are going to call me a conspiracy theorist, but I believe the left wants to create these honeypots. I just don't think they are that stupid (at the top). I mean Eric Holder armed El Chapo in the Fast and Furious scandal --which by the way, we might learn more about very soon (breaking news).
They create the honeypot, then say, "Well that didn't work, we need more gun free zones" or "We need to take the guns."
Why even announce to the threat that you're on guard? Game Theory 101. You should prefer he not know you're on guard so that to whatever extent the threat is real, at least he tries it while you're ready for him, rather than he knows to wait a couple weeks and do it while you're not looking.
Really excellent point. It looks like they caught the guy. Maybe he's specially needs, and was easy to track immediately. Or maybe he was drunk and on drugs. For whatever reason, he didn't take measures to guard his identity. But I don't know the time table of when the police knew his identity and when they announced the lockdown.
But either way the Police definitely want the good PR, especially after the Coward County police stood down a few weeks ago. They write us tickets and interrupt our lives needlessly all the time so there should be at least perceived benefit to their existence.
I think that's definitely probably likely. And it can happen on various stages of consciousness. When people are quick to wave things off as "conspiracy theories" often I find it's because they aren't really thinking deeply about the incentives and how it evolves and how different things can happen without deliberate coordination. So they think your theory depends on like 5 guys in a smoky room planning it out, but really it can be more about how people respond in real time based on their natural incentives.
Like gun free zones are a good job security for state police. And then the fact that mass shootings would cause television media attention and can be used as a political football etc is embedded into that, and it'll naturally align a lot of different people.
I feel like it's all just kind of the reverberating effects of the state.. like the incentives all spill over to cause violence in other ways
But statists don't understand how their system naturally encourages this stuff so any time you dissect something too closely you'll eventually be guilty of a "conspiracy theory" in their mind
Right, the classic thing of butting in a little to create a problem, then blame the problem on mysterious forces and say they didn't butt in enough.
Interesting. Ya, it seems weird that they would catch him. Like you'd think they'd have their whatever techniques, but you'd think whoever called in the threat would only do it because he felt pretty sure he was hidden. So it should be uncommon that they just catch him. Maybe incapacitated of some sort like you say.
I wonder if there's any chance this is all a setup, like they faked it to make themselves look good and look like the cops are protecting us and gun free zones are fine, look at this orderly response to a threat sort of thing.