CONSPIRACY theories are a dime a dozen on the Internet. It’s better not to go there, as they say, which is why, as these theories pile up in connection with the latest big news event, I absolutely believe the Charleston massacre was real. I lament this terrible tragedy. I lament the evil it represents. Even though it obviously happened — how could this kind of thing possibly be staged, especially since a state senator was one of the victims? — one has to admit that there are staged qualities about it that feed into the conspiracy theories. They include the contrived-looking photographs of Dylann Roof with the Confederate flag, the improbability that a relatively small man could shoot and instantly kill nine people — without anyone running away or more victims being simply wounded — with a handgun which required reloading five times, and the instantaneous, theatrical reaction from the federal government, which is reportedly already giving $29 million to the victims’ families. Again, I assume these are just strange coincidences and oddities, but as further evidence of strangeness I offer this video from one of the burgeoning number of conspiracy-theory bloggers. Let’s just say these interviews in the video are abnormal reactions. Let’s leave it at that.

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Hurricane Betsy writes:

So, some yoyo stands there and watches the shooter while he kills and reloads five times, making sure he’s counting those reloads too.  LOL! I don’t know, but I’d be outa there after the first shot.

Laura writes:

Roof is a highly skilled marksman. He even reportedly shot a cellphone of one the victims to disable it — all while no one fled.

If you were in a room while a massacre was going on, would you count the number of times the gun was reloaded?

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