Political Myths and Conspiracy Theories That Will Make You Question Everything

The Sandy Hook Conspiracy

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On December 14, 2012, 20 students and six staff embers were murdered by Adam Lanza at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Although it was pretty clear as to what actually happened, the event spawned a series of conspiracy theories believed by those who felt that the response to the shooting was an attempt to take away their right of the 2nd Amendment.

One theory claimed that the murder of all of the children and staff was actually organized by the United States government as an extremely radical way to promote stricter gun laws on pro-gun activists. The other, a more absurd theory, supported by some, is that the entire thing was a hoax and that it was all completely staged with nobody ever dying.