Take off the tin hat, none of this nonsense addresses my question. And it's ironic that you mention Hitler since gun laws were actually loosened during his rule.
Nazi Germany didn't rise to power because the people were defenseless to stop the govt. it rose to power because Hitler and the Nazi party charmed and effectively brainwashed them.
While I disagree with this theory I give you credit for at least trying to address my question. A couple reasons for my disagreement.
1. The simplest explanation is that there was "misinformation" at the time because it was a chaotic event in a small town. Pretty sure nobody has even heard of Newton before this tragedy and I'm assuming local news crews were first on the scene, I doubt they had covered anything like this in the past. This is a town that had
one murder in the last 10 years. Its not like Woodward and Bernstein were on the scene.
2. This "misinformation" that you speak of lasted for a few hours. Only conspiracy theorists still have questions/doubts etc., questions they wouldn't have if the "misinformation" hadn't been spread in the first place. Even more irony.
2. The theory goes that this atrocity was perpetrated by the government for the purpose of gun control. I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that no meaningful legislation will come out of this and people who want to buy guns will still be able to do so. In fact this tragedy will probably spur more people to buy guns in the irrational belief that the govt. is trying to "disarm" them, similar to what happened when Obama was re-elected.
If anything it actually makes more sense that if there was some evil purpose/conspiracy behind Newton, its goal was to
increase the purchase of guns by the people, thus lining corporate pockets. I mean think about it,
who really profits from gun control?
The NSA has a city sized spy center in the Utah dessert. That's a much more credible threat to our liberty than some attempt to disarm the people. Nothing brings more attention/credibility to the anti.govt. movement than talk of gun control. Meanwhile the CIA steadily builds a wealth of data on our every day lives and nobody bats an eye. If anything the gun control angle of conspiracy is just a smoke screen.