115: The Danger of Hoaxers and "Alternate Truths": Rep. Greene, Alex Jones, and More

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So-called "gun truthers" — hoaxers — believe that mass killings such as the one at Sandy Hook are government-run plots designed to gin up support for restrictive gun laws, among other things. Some of these individuals even believe such massacres to be entirely fictitious productions in which no one involved is hurt, let alone killed; actors, they will tell you, masquerade as the victims, friends, and grieving kin the country sees in the news.
This behavior is not only reprehensible, but somehow — in defiance of all reason — increasingly common as well. More and more, the families of gun violence victims, already reeling from a loss no one should ever know, are subjected to the rants and tirades of the far right's cynical fringe in both the media and the streets of their home towns. Today, Fred Guttenberg and Andy Parker, two fathers who, after losing their beloved daughters Jaime and Alison to gun violence, have been repeatedly attacked by these so-called “truthers,” join hosts Kelly and JJ , and Brady President Kris Brown to discuss what the normalization of such misconduct means to them — and to our troubled country.

Further reading:
Marjorie Taylor Greene Supported Conspiracy Theory That Parkland Massacre Was 'False Flag Planned Shooting' (Forbes)
'Grow a spine': Parkland father's message to Kevin McCarthy (CNN)
Tell Gray Television to grant a co-copyright to help me fight YouTube (Change.org)
US gun violence spawns a new epidemic: conspiracy theorists harassing victims (the Guardian)

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