Cartel maybe. Hit, I'd call it something different.

A Cell that I call the CIA plans to MKUltra a Manson here, a Jim Jones there. Every decade or two drop a college tower sniper. It controls the people.

But then observant ones learn the methods and Gary Gygax releases a cult-making manual, called D&D, enabling independent Cells to pop up all over.

A political Cell may use the internet to MK a teenager into doing the Charleston. A foreign Cell may peer pressure someone into the Pulse night club. A racial supremacist cell might make a man forget to hit the brakes at the parade.

The secret is out. Everyone knows how to make a cell and how to coax a soft mind into evil deeds toward a cause. We can't put that Djinni back into the bottle.

These shooting events, the ones that actually happened, will continue to happen until we teach our people not to fall slave to the whims of others.

Maybe a Cartel hit. But it's so much more.