The Springfield Police Department arrived on scene within three minutes of the call. Police stated that a young white male, appearing to be in his twenties, pulled up to the Walmart, where he donned body armor and military fatigues. Police say the man had tactical weapons.
Police then say the man walked into the Walmart: Neighborhood Market where he grabbed a cart and began pushing it around the store. Police say the man was recording himself walking through the store via a cell phone.
Comment: What's so strange about that?
The store manager at the Neighborhood Market pulled a fire alarm, urging people to escape the store.
Comment: In other words, people there freaked out because of the Texas mass shooting.
Police say the man then made his way out an emergency exit where a firefighter held the man at gunpoint. At that moment Springfield Police arrived on scene and detained the man.
Comment: His stunt was ill-conceived, given what had just happened at a Walmart in Texas. But, technically, what he did is still legal in the open-carry state of Missouri...
This is precisely what organized mass shootings are designed to do: alter mass perception of reality, and prime people to alter/enforce 'the law' accordingly.