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1/17/2013 12:04:44 AM
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College Professor claims Newtown shooting was a conspiracy
Here is another video about this: [url]http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c3#/video/bestoftv/2013/01/16/ac-newtown-conspiracy-theorists-harassment.cnn[/url]
I was not even aware of this, but apparently there are conspiracy theories about the newtown shooting, which claims that the shooting was misreported, exaggerated, or completely fake in order for the US government to increase support for gun control. The most notable guy is a college professor who claimed that the shooting was not thoroughly investigated, and got the attention of Anderson Cooper. Survivors of the shooting are actually being harassed by some of these people, calling them liars and fakers.
Now, clearly these people are a very small minority who are only payed attention too because of the internet and do not represent gun advocates, these people are completely different. Still, this is just disgusting.
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I remember seeing things like this on Facebook right after the shooting. There's a segment of the population, disproportionately represented on the internet, that believes all authority is inherently evil. They then view the world through this lens, making all sorts of connections that don't exist. The paranoid mind is scary. The worst thing is, every real act of corruption from authority serves to reinforce this mentality so, it won't die out.
