Who Do We Choose To Be?

Conspiracy Theories

On December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, twenty young children and seven adults were killed at the Sandy Hook elementary school by a twenty-year-old young man using an automatic weapon (he had killed his mother on his way to the massacre).

I have been aware of the insane number of conspiracy theories that circulate online about everything. I’ve watched some of them in mocking disbelief, and I’ve enjoyed comedians who make fun of them. But I was ignorant of the conspiracy theories that began circulating immediately after the Sandy Hook slaying of the innocents. For all that is being written about Internet hatred and trolls,²⁴ I am still stunned by what the community of Newtown has had to endure because of the conspiracy ...