Did some media play into ISIS's hands?

Yes, fake news but we've also had fake news from Peter Arnett a few years back where he claimed the Special Operations group had gone in burn the village killed and raped and use sarin gas and later we found out he was full of crap. He is no longer with CNN. Hillary Clinton sure jumped on the gun-control bandwagon. This is a similar situation of the 1966 Texas University shooting. We will just have to find out if this guy had a brain tumor or why he flipped out. This guy was wealthy e owned a few homes and even had his own private airplane. He didn't have a still in his house and he wasn't having sex with his sister. He seem like a normal guy and now we know the truth. Watch someone say he had a make America great again hat in his house.

They have little else to claim lately, so why not.

Good question PO1 William "Chip" Nagel. I expect that as time passes we will learn the impact, if any.