That's my take on it. The mainstream media tells us what happened. I discount it as another half story or outright lie and then we wait 20 years for the actual events to be disclosed in a matter-of-fact manner as if it had always been known.
WMD in Iraq? Everyone knew they were there, then everyone knew they weren't and that's just the way "news" happens in the modern world.
All we do know for sure is the left wing anti-gun mob will be leaping for joy. Maybe they should talk to the Catalonians about the merits of being defenceless in the face of "civil servants".