Yeah it kind of makes one wonder if they are trying to make it obvious to the cohort of folks who know this kind of FF BS is going on. The kinds of powerful actors behind these FF events are not stupid, so if they are doing something that looks stupid to us, we can rest absolutely assured that it is intentional (assuming it is an FF).

If we work with that assumption, it seems like the goal in the end is to attempt to remove gun rights while fermenting resistance so strong as to create a Blue state approved federal rule that is resisted by red states, ultimately leading to the final goal of civil war, whereupon the UN and China will assist the north against a resistant South.

The reason TPTB want this to play out in that fashion (versus using more convincing events to get wider acceptance of gun control) is so that they can rid their territory of nationalist sentiment entirely. Take a look at Ukraine; Russia and China and the United States all work for the same overlords, so why would they fight over territory? Well, once you realize that Russia is invading exactly where the nationalists (Azov Battalion) reside in Ukraine, then you start looking at some other wars. The Viet Cong in north Vietnam were left-wing nationalists, and the North Koreans were nationalists, and the NAZIs were nationalists. Each of these wars was designed to split the effort between the east and the west, with the goal of destroying uncontrollable nationalist groups who pose a threat to the global banking hegemony.