Well, I like to assume that at least some people are just confused by the media reports, or some misleading youtube videos they have seen. Others, though, are definitely convinced of the conspiracy emotionally, and will fit together whatever evidence they feel fits their preconceived story, and reject anything else, with no real adherence to logic.
I’m actually a fan of a good conspiracy theory, there are a few that I have my pet speculations about. There just aren’t any good conspiracy theories about Sandy Hook, so why pursue an exercise in foolishness?
A big part of the foolishness is the rush to theorize before there has been any official reports, hearings, or evidence released. The theorists are claiming a cover-up, before they can even point to the official “cover story” that contradicts their theory. Say what you will about the other conspiracy theorists, but the JFK crowd waited for the Warren Report to come out, and the 9/11 truthers waited for the 9/11 Commission report to come out too before they went wild with speculation.
I guess they don’t want to be prudent and wait because the left is using Sandy Hook to push gun control urgently. I don’t think they have really thought through the idea that spouting conspiracy theories will somehow counteract Obama and the left’s agenda though. As far as America is concerned, Sandy Hook happened, and we might as well figure out how to stop gun control in the America we live in, rather than stick our heads in the sand and pretend we can wish the event away.
I’ve been somewhat ignoring them, because I thought they were harmless.
But they are not harmless. THey make the entire conservative movement look like idiots. And they make it that much harder to argue for sound gun rights policies, because the media points to THESE lunatics and calls them the face of the gun rights movement.
So people who want to keep guns legal are all said to be hateful idiots who denounce grieving families for not “crying enough” or not “behaving properly”, or for being “stepford wives” or “actors”. (Every one of those was said in THIS forum by people who I assume claim to be conservatives).
It is an embarrassment to this site to treat these conspiracy theories with anything but derision and scorn. Do they really think kids are NOT DEAD? That an entire community faked a shooting, hired John Goodman and other actors, all to push gun control, and that law enforcement and first responders and teachers and hospital personnel all went along with this, pretending that kids were dead when they aren’t?
If not, what is their point? That we shouldn’t care about 20 dead kids because the parents act weird? How insulting is that! It plays right into the “conservatives are heartless bastards” meme.
So now, when I see some idiot claim that a grieving father is “just wrong” because he actually laughed at something, I’m going to call them out for their uncivil, ill-mannered accusations.
I’m sick and tired of supposed conservatives making us all look like nutcases. It’s time to put sanity back into the movement.