These days conspiracy theories run rampant and people take them as fact. It's dangerous. Every mass shooting people are posting how everyone are actors or other nonsense. This all takes away from the larger picture that there is a major mental health issue that needs to be addressed.
Maybe it's easier for some people to believe that the government or some shadow government stages these shootings for their own gain then to look at the fact that society is degrading and we are failing a segment of our population that has mental health issues.
Or just maybe it's because they have watched way to many TV shows and movies showing that everything is a conspiracy.
Either way people need to live a little more in reality and less in their alter reality so things can get done to fix the issues.
"What Ifs" are great when placed on something useful, like What If we can change the way we look at those with mental health issues and get them some help vs acting like it's not an issue. Or worse treating people with these issues like they are the plague and need to be shunned, mistreated, and avoided all of which just make their mental health issues worse.
I definitely agree with this.
There is a big difference in those that think through the possibilities and those who absorb them. Gullibility seems to be a symptom of the engineered internet views of the world.