that doesn't stop them from either being handicapped, or wanted to deliberately provoke a reaction (ie actually start another france 2.0 cus "gotta kill muh muslins".)
Do honestly believe that this event was created to bait gunmen into attacking people? Pretty ballsy thing to do. Purposely while to put yourself in the line of fire for some event to draw a man that you aren't even allowed to image in the Muslim faith.
stuff like this gets drawn all the time, yet we never hear Christian or Jewish/Pro-Israel radicals attacking people for it
These men see themselves as doing gods work by defending the faith that they have deemed to be the one true faith. They are same thing as the Christians and Catholics who fire bomb abortion clinics. If there is something they don't like, they are going to do something about it in a way they see fit. If this event didn't happen, they would have probably shot up a pro-Israel rally, or an Iraq War memorial, or the funeral of a navy seal.