It's not retarded. You want to piss off the normies, and demonstrate the government doesn't care enough to protect them, or won't. And you want to cause the government to overreact, and piss off the normies even more with restrictions and crackdowns. Governments are often/usually too retarded to correctly assess the situation, and everything they do makes things worse.  Performed correctly, and with government blowing their response, more and more normies join the 'revolutionary forces' and it all snowballs.  @Tallest_Skil explains: https://voat.co/v/politics/2943314/15847692