NRA officer enlisted a Sandy Hook truther to sow doubt about Parkland shooting, emails show

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The inquiry, sent from NRA official Mark Richardson’s work email, was evidence of the curious handshake in which the gun-rights organization has found itself with the most extreme purveyors of Internet falsehoods.

Wolfgang Halbig, left, has made numerous trips to Newtown, Conn., to question the official version of the school shooting that took place there in 2012. By Isaac Stanley-Becker Isaac Stanley-Becker Reporter based in the U.K. Email Bio Follow March 28 at 6:38 AM In the week after a gunman opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., killing 17 students and staff members and renewing calls for gun control, the National Rifle Association fell silent.

He pushed the deluded idea that the gunman, a former student at the school, had not acted alone, posing a series of questions about how he had gained entry and where he had kept his equipment. The deaths returned the nation’s focus to the two communities, which have been besieged by online abuse and threats stoked by conspiracy theories that depict the victims as “crisis actors."

The revelation came as the NRA was already facing criticism on Wednesday for saying it would oppose the Violence Against Women Act because of a provision designed to keep guns away from men who batter women. The legislation, first approved in 1994, is up for reauthorization in Congress. “I am tired of going to funerals where parents are burying their children,” he said. “We are going to bring a fight like the NRA has never seen.”

Citing his credentials in law enforcement and school security, Halbig has asserted unique insight into what happened in Newtown.

 

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Bunch of A-holes! How low will the NRA go to keep not just guns but to keep assault rifles on the streets of America. Just sick and sad!!!

Alex Jones must be inconsolable. He put a lot of work into that.

And thus demanded the creation a new and 10th level of hell. Can't wait for him to discover it.

Doh_Doh_Burrd

Evil. IS. Alive.

Wow..despicable and evil

The scum running the NRA at this time are a disgrace to the many responsible gun owners in the USA. Used to be a useful, responsible organization. Now it’s all about the Benjamins.

Lobbying is the source of many problems. Ban lobbying and go back to reality.

Evil MFers

Tell us again how the NRA is not a terrorist organization?

MrJonCryer The NRA try to twist Sandy Hook but I saw Sandy Hook I was there that day as they cleaned it up you can't fake something like that that makes the NRA apolitical organisation based on lies spreading lies and backing candidates that won't pass gun laws

MrJonCryer Liars should not call themselves truthers ....

Fahrenthold The NRA IS A DOMESTIC TERRORIST ORGANIZATION

MrJonCryer 'Truther'

PATHETIC!

In a normal world, the NationalRussianAssociation would be viewed as a terrorist organization But here we are in the land of chaos in trump’s world

MiaFarrow This is sick shit and not at all surprising.

Canadiangal51 NRA is the dirtiest terroristic organization in USA. No wonder Russians are trying to worm their way in.

Terrible people at the NRA. No decent person has a membership.

Fahrenthold So where are all you MFKERS who think the NRA is an innocent organization? DISGUSTING. Shut the whole thing down. A man just commuted suicide over this.

Fahrenthold Hey hey, ho ho the NRA has got to go.

Fahrenthold NRA is a terrorist organization. It should be shut down.

auntlellie How is that NOT Ilegal? The NRA MUST BE STOPPED

The world has become a very sick place. It's no wonder Trump and the NRA are so buddy buddy.

rhonda_harbison Something has to be done about the NRA. They are far over-reaching their boundaries. They are all up into our political system to the point where they are subversive.

HC_Richardson Disgusting.

SHOW ME ONE (1) DEATH CERTIFICATE

rhonda_harbison How do they sleep at night🤬

The doubt is that ur blaming the NRA for something they have NO control over.The NRA didn't enlist the shooters in fact they didn't sell the gunsAlso these guns didn't get up one morning and decide to go kill a bunch of ppl a human being did.I've never seen a gun kill only ppl do

The NRA is like IBS. Once we find the right medication, the shit will stop.

The NRA, a very dark entity with very dark agenda and very dark partners.

Propaganda channel enlisted man culpable for Parkland to sow doubt about his culpability and most major outlets still run cover, history shows

Meeting OliverLNorth’s long history of fearless honesty. Semper FU! nra

Your lede here sucks. What is a “Sandy Hook truther?” It should refer to him as an “incredible idiot” or “a menace to society”. Using the word “truth” in this lede gives his absurd theory gravitas it shouldn’t have.

And we have their money influencing our nation's leaders. Let that sink in.

“These people are sick.”

stockhunter8 Time to sue them until they are no longer relevant!

It's impossible to believe anything you say now. Its either a lie or a massive misrepresentation of the truth.

Disgusting

911 moon landings were an outside job

Sad that this story is not getting more attention. NRA should be ashamed although they seem to be void of any emotions or morals at this point. NRAScam

The 'Truther' is a Liar Change the lede

Using that NRA play book That the tried to teach to one nation party in Australia it not guns or guns laws it everything else

A 'truther'? A curious neologism, to say the least, especially as it appears to mean the opposite of what it implies.

Parkland was an inside job? Seriously, is that what they’re going with?

Guns are meant to terrorise or kill. The problem is people see it as a far away issue until it's closer to home.

So teachers with guns in schools, NOT NEEDED. Shooter drills , metal detectors, police safety officers, not needed, because NOW NRA is saying all the deaths are a hoax ? Got it 🤷🏻‍♀️

The NRA needs to teach gun safety and your politics are dead wrong.

The NRA NEEDS TO PAY THEIR FUKING TAXES!!

Disband the NRA

NRA ISIS

Are you guys telling the truth? I don't know what to believe anymore.

We need to stop calling these people truthers.

Sickening.

We’ve seen that there are a lot of truly horrible people in this country over the reality past couple of years, but anyone denying the murders of a classroom full of children is squarely in the evil category.

One can always count on the NRA... to shoot at everyone, everything... Is it their PR dept. or their ‘How to kill’ dept....

Evil. Pure evil.

The NRA and GOP are all about psychological warfare intended to trick Americans into believing something that is NOT TRUE. The press needs to hit back harder on all of this gaslighting. Their credibility depends on it! Parkland was fake! Trump! Get the FBI on the NRA!

What is wrong with these people. They have no souls

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Since the NRA can’t convince people that guns have nothing to do with mass shootings, now they are trying to convince people that the shootings never happened.

Thank you for exposing these odious people.

NRAIsATerroristOrganization

RT : NRA officer enlisted a SandyHook truther to sow doubt about Parkland shooting, emails show

NRA is a terrorist organization and should be treated as such.

“The moon and the truth are not long hidden.”

Deplorable.

Good! Because they were both Mass Psy-Op hoaxes

davidcicilline SenWhitehouse SenJackReed JimLangevin This should not happen. Victim protections from slander?

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