Two conspiracy corners in one day? Well, I was in Wellington last week and never got around to updating the site (i.e. I was having too much fun to worry about the internets).

The Sandy Hook Mutations

Note: I got the date completely wrong on when Sandy Hook occurred; it was post the election, not prior.

Sandy Hook is fast becoming a conspiracy theory that says the real victims of the shooting are not the dead, their families or friends but, rather, gun owners and conservatives. It is also a good example of what I think is a common set of mutations for such conspiracy theories, namely:

1. It didn’t happen (It was set up by the media or the president. Presumably to justify further erosions of civil liberties – narrowly defined as being about guns rather than, say the rights of women), or:
2. It did happen, but not the way we’ve been told (It did happen but there was a second shooter and some of the victims were invented – to make it look worse than it really was?) or
3. It did happen the way we’ve been told, but there’s another layer to it (The real cause was drugs, or video games or something not related to guns and the government and the media are deliberately making guns the real victims to hide other problems in society or there is a suspicious correlation between some other event).

More thoughts on all of this below.

Related posts:

1. Conspiracy Corner – Hurricane Sandy and the POTUS
2. Conspiracy Corner – Chemtrails (and a bit of a competition)
3. Sex vs Gratuitous Violence
4. Conspiracy Corner – John McAfee – Super-spy!