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Gun rights which, you may note, remain unfuckingchanged.

So yeah, picture the craziest person you've ever met, multiply their insanity by 10, and then imagine that they've been cloned to build a small army. That's what Pozner deals with daily. Search for "Sandy Hook conspiracy" on YouTube and you'll get 244,000 results. One 20-minute "documentary" has three million views. Popular talk radio personalities like Alex Jones quickly jumped on board, rallying his fans to the noble "All These Dead Children Are Phony And Their Grieving Parents Are Actors" cause. It's a rabbit hole without end, and Pozner threw himself into it just weeks after the shooting.

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And when has Alex Jones ever been wrong about anything?

"I was outraged by what I was seeing unfold, particularly by someone like Alex Jones, who has a sizable audience. So I emailed him in January and called him out for suggesting that this was a staged event and that we were all so-called 'crisis actors' faking our grief. He invited me on his show, but I would have nothing to do with him. It was barely a month after my son was murdered, and I was still in a fog of grief and denial. The last thing I wanted to do was deal with the press."

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If conspiracy theorists could name a king without immediately beginning to suspect that their monarch was a reptilian Illuminati stooge, Alex Jones would be that king. His radio show gets two million listeners a week, and his websites and videos pull millions of views. In an article written five days after the shooting, Jones' site said "it would take a fool not to question the motive behind it all: Is this all part of an evil pre-conditioning program?" And that was just the start of their coverage.