Sandy Hook Truthers: The NRA has actively encouraged the paranoid fears of conspiracy theories after gun massacres. - Slate Magazine

Sandy Hook Truthers: The NRA has actively encouraged the paranoid fears of conspiracy theories after gun massacres. - Slate Magazine: But what’s the point of debunking any of this? The theories don’t spread because they’re credible. They spread in part because of the confirmation bias of worried gun owners. And that’s actually been egged on, multiple times, by the National Rifle Association. The gun lobby might be the only credible group, with real clout, with the ability to bring presidential candidates to its conferences, to endorse the idea that the government would engage in a “false flag” operation. In 2011, as the Republican House of Representatives dug in on the “Fast and Furious” investigation, the NRA’s professional flak magnet Wayne LaPierre speculated that the Feds planned the debacle, to build momentum for gun control.