re: #246 HappyWarrior

The NRA did spread conspiracies about Columbine and VA Tech, but they were the more garden-variety “liberals are coming for your guns” type.

Bill O’Reilley came out with a conspiratorial book on Reagan being shot by GHW Bush (Bush had the most to gain). Others spread conspiracies that it was neo-Nazis who shot the president.

The only real difference between older conspiracies and newer ones is we have an Internet to spread them, where before you needed a Mimeograph machine.