Hello Matt,   
      
   MM>I am going to open pandora's box on this.   
      
   MM>1. The government killed the children by using a second hitman   
   MM>to kill the children and the staff and ended up using the gunman   
   MM>as the fall guy.   
      
   Yes, as it takes at least two people to make a conspiracy a conspiracy.   
      
   MM>2. the Department of Homeland security used actors to portray   
   MM>the parents of the dead children.   
      
   Yes.  Gotta keep those unemployment numbers down.  Actors need work   
   too, you know.   
      
   MM> .. An armed populace is the greatest insurance against tyrany.   
      
   In 1543 the first Westerners arrived in Japan, bearing guns.   
   By 1575, guns had replaced swords among the Japanese, including   
   most of the samurai.  But after 1637, the Japanese stopped using   
   guns, on order of the Shogun (wanting to keep their heads, the   
   Japanese wisely gave up their guns).  And for the next 200+ years,   
   no guns were used or allowed.  It was not until Commodore Perry   
   arrived that put guns back into the lives of the Japanese.   
      
   The Shogun had found out, the hard way, that arming a population   
   with guns was a terrible idea.  The population, even armed with guns,   
   did nothing to protect the Shogun from white men armed with guns.   
   As such, the Shogun did the only sensible thing he could.  Can't   
   really blame him.  Better to chop off some heads than get his own   
   head blown away ...   
      
   --Lee   
      
   --- MesNews/1.06.00.00-gb   
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