re: #309 ObserverArt

I wonder…what does it take for someone to say Sandy Hook did not happen and that it was all a hoax? Do you have to love guns that much so that everything that comes out about guns being a problem is automatically a step on that slippery slope?

Geez…I think people that think that way are already on a slippery slope. It’s called denial of reality and closing your mind completely. Not a good thing for the person or the society.

The initial infection point for the SANDY HOOK WAS A HOAX!!!11 (hereafter ‘SHWAH’) conspiracy theory was in pro-gun people but its rate of infection among people who actually go to the range and shoot their guns is fairly low, mostly because almost all pro-gun orgs and gun-oriented sites are hostile to this theory and many will ban those who try to propagate it. As a result, its currently popular mostly with “The US Government is behind all crises!!1” types of conspiracists and with mall ninjas who mostly bought their guns out of fear of President Obama, Muslims, and/or black people.

The primary drivers of SHWAH nowadays are ODS and a refusal to admit that people can do very bad things for little or no reason.