At the time Rome was undefeatable and she was ruined from within, we are now Rome, we will be destroyed from the inside out. Just look out your window,

No. You are missing the pressure from progressives to conform to their idealogies. Hollywood, always used as a tool to manipulate the public, has been very outspoken politically. You would be blind to not see this. Only people that think for themselves, or non-conformists, are bucking the conformity.

Over 51% of the public is buying into the idealogy if spreading the wealth, Robon Hood, taking from the rich to give to the poor. They cannot see the forest for the trees. 51% of the population admits to being controllable, admits to being putty in the hands of the government. Maleable, and made to behave a certain way by trigger points. They cannot see it, because they are happy with their perceived benefits, both real and imaginary. The illusionary Hope and Change people, even as they see their benefits changing, their paychecks growing a little smaller, are still clinging to their version of hope.

Maenwhile, the government is growing ever larger. The top levels of the military that were outspoken against the president were removed for "Other" reasons, but it becomes clear the reasons are because they didn't want to do things HIS way.

The same is happening in all levels of government. Any voice of dissention is being removed. Quickly. While it is understandable to want your cabinet to be supportive, voices if difference can open avenues of thought. Anyone that is honest wants differece in opinion to be able to view things from more than one direction.

While calling Republicans the party of No, isn't it Obama that says he refuses to budge on increasing the debt ceiling? They are using political party affilliation to divide and conquer. Republican is now a dirty, slanderous word, like being called a Communist used to be.

While you look out your window and cannot see the forest for the trees, our government IS in apolitical coup. Once they passed the 50% mark, it was all downhill from there. However, the voices of dissention have begun to change the tide. The 2Nd Amendmendment issue was a misjudgment on their part, IMO. Now, they are struggling to regain control by trying to drown it all out. It is only up to the non-conformists now, whether or not they succeed.

A political coup, with the help of progressives unwittingly having been controlled and manipulated, to perform their own coup on the public.

Sorry for typos, typed in a hurry from my phone.

Originally posted by KingIcarus
Tempting though it is to look for 'rational' explanations to irrational events, could it not be just the fact that crazy men have easy access to guns and do crazy things? Admittedly this is a UK perspective, but surely people just snap sometimes.

When the evidence boils down to things like people shooting up x, y or z and looking 'crazy' or 'out of it', that does rather sound like evidence of some form of critical mental break.

How should they look? How should they act?

Of course people do simply snap at times. That is surely the reality in some cases. The problem we are looking at is what seems to be a rash of these mass shootings, or attempts at such, lately. Considering that these happen with increasing regularity, and all the pushing for gun "control" (read "seizure"), people can't help but speculate about some hidden motives behind these cases. Just this last year, we had far more cases than are seen on average.