The LAX shooter definitely wasn't a conspiracy theorist. Conspiracy theorists are all too smart for that.

Because getting involved in a loosely organized anti-government movement, and writing off any attacks on the government by your movement which result in people getting killed as the trickery of your opponent (who is utterly ruthless and will stop at nothing)...that totally isn't evading responsibility, or legitimating violence, or ensuring that this will continue.

It's kind of a disturbing trend to see them truly believe that this is critical thought. They've completely subverted the idea of skepticism, changed it from "Question everything" to "Only question the official story - mindlessly believe everything else". Conspiracy theories are, by definition, inductive reasoning, conclusions drawn despite a lack of information. They begin with some grand conclusion and form postulations to prop that conclusion up with. We see it every time there is a mass shooting: Alex Jones screams #FALSEFLAG and then his mindslaves diligently go to work creating arguments to support that. It's just... critical thinking doesn't work in that direction. Only deductive reasoning can lead to sound conclusions. You start with premises and form a conclusion from them.

You know, part of me wishes I could believe what they believe. Because then there aren't lone crazy people out there who have the ability to randomly hurt innocent people at any time. The vast majority of everything bad in the world is really being controlled by a small sect of evil people and if only that small group could be stopped the world would easily be a better place.

That's a comforting thought in a hugely complex and random world.

HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The congnitive dissonance is strong with that one. A lot of the tards hold conflicting conspiracies, therefore beyond a doubt one of them has to be wrong. When I mean wrong I mean bat shit crazy wrong.