The New York Times has just published and article about how Alex Jones encouraged and enabled the conspiracy lunatic Wolfgang Halbig after Sandy Hook. Victims of Sandy Hook are suing both Jones and Halbig and we can all hope they prevail.
But the most significant piece of information in the article is buried in the middle, where it can easily be overlooked. After the Parkland massacre, the NRA actually reached out to Halbig and encouraged him to cast doubt on Parkland too:
“The heightened profile Mr. Halbig gained through Mr. Jones and his skepticism about mass shootings drew him into the orbit of the National Rifle Association, as well. On Feb. 15, 2018, the day after 17 people died in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., Mark Richardson, a program officer for the N.R.A., emailed Mr. Halbig to stir doubts about the facts of the shooting, according to a document in the Texas lawsuit that was first reported by HuffPost.
Referring to Sandy Hook, Mr. Richardson wrote to Mr. Halbig that “there is so much more to this story,” wrongly speculating in the message that the Parkland shooter “was not alone.””
This story should be pasted to the forehead of Wayne LaPierre and Dana Loesch and Oliver North. They should not be able to appear anywhere in public without it being brought up.