ipl-logo

The Conspiracy Theory: The Sandy Hook Elementary Shootings

1258 Words6 Pages

Conspiracy theories are widely known in the society that we live in today. Webster’s definition of a conspiracy theory is a theory that explains an event or situation as the result of a secret plan by usually powerful people or groups. Conspiracy theories are accepted by many people in the world that we live in today. A recent conspiracy theory involves the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting. On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza shot and killed twenty students. Americans were devastated by this tragedy. People were shocked that such a tragic event could take place and immediately had to find a place to push the blame. This blame got placed on the United States Government. Society buys into the Sandy Hook conspiracy theory because of the mindset on …show more content…

People believe that the government causes certain events in order to make more strict regulations in the country. During the time of the Sandy Hook shooting, President Obama was fighting for more strict gun control within the country. Many people believe that because of this fight the Sandy Hook shooting took place. Society would rather put the blame on the government, rather than accepting the fact that some people just have issues that cause them to perform unthinkable acts. For example, Adam Lanza, the shooter of Sandy Hook elementary. Lanza was 20 years old and had Asperger’s. Asperger’s, a form of autism, is not believed to have played a major role in what caused Lanza to do the shooting a Sandy Hook. Lauren Elder, a clinical psychologist with Autism Speaks says, “Often, their violent acts are self-injurious and spontaneous, the result of frustrated attempts to communicate and not getting their pain or desires heard or addressed.” (Time). Lauren Elder states that in most cases Asperger’s causes one to hurt themselves. This is not likely to be the same for every individual with the disease. Asperger’s could have caused Adam Lanza to become angry and react in harsh ways, resulting in the shooting of Sandy Hook …show more content…

As stated prior, during the time of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting, President Barack Obama was also fighting to make more strict gun control in America. President Obama wanted it to be more difficult to possess such lethal weapons, in hopes that it would lower the risk of crimes such as the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting. Because of these two events happening at the same time, many people believed that the Sandy Hook shooting was an inside job. People believed that President Obama set up the shooting in order to demonstrate why we needed more strict gun control. Society believed that the Sandy Hook shooting gave Obama evidence as to why we needed gun control. However, that appears to be highly unlikely. Believing that the President of the United States would kill innocent elementary school students in order to gain support for more strict gun control seems absurd. This serves as an example of how American’s can not accept what is going on and there is chaos in our country. Society must always blame a more powerful source for tragic events. This particular event happened to fall on the shoulders of President Barack Obama. Another red flag to conspiracy theory enthusiasts, was the fact that the Department of Homeland Security had a training exercise only a few miles from Sandy Hook Elementary. This caused many people to

Show More
Related

  • Adam Lanza Case Study

    928 Words  | 4 Pages

    Adam Lanza was a 20 year old male born on april 22nd, 1992. When on December 14th, 2012 he shot and killed 20 first-graders and 6 adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The years before the killing Adam went to medical experts at Yale University and was called to drastic measures to help him. But according to those calls they went largely unheeded and they went untreated. Adam had multiple psychiatric and physical ailments.

    Read More

  • JFK Assassination

    1348 Words  | 6 Pages

    Regardless over the past 50 years of official and unofficial analysis, there has never been an incontrovertible answer to the real story of who shot Kennedy on that apocalyptic autumn afternoon in 1963. The Warren Commission pronounced that Lee Harvey Oswald was the only gunman while not everyone seems to believe it. The world has produced many sensational conspiracy theories about the mafia, the CIA, Lyndon B. Johnson, the limo driver, the KGB, the one percent, the illuminate, and even aliens. As time persists, the slender line between fact and myth has disappeared and many people believe different things. The Associated Press has conducted a new poll that shows 50% of Americans believe there were numerous shooters involved.

    Read More

  • What Are The Conspiracy Theories Of The SHES Massacre

    1445 Words  | 6 Pages

    On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza fatally shot twenty students and six staff members of Sandy Hook Elementary School (SHES) in Newtown, Connecticut before committing suicide. Lanza’s horrific massacre evoked fear and grief across the United States, but it soon became the subject of controversy and debate. Numerous conspiracy theories of government involvement surround the tragedy as some people began to doubt and question the legitimacy of the mass shooting. Because of the growing distrust in the government in 2012, these conspiracy theories became pervasive in the media through the support of prominent “truthers” such as Alex Jones. Although most of the truthers’ arguments have been disproved, the conspiracy theories of the SHES massacre maintains

    Read More

  • Jfk Conspiracy

    1579 Words  | 7 Pages

    Since the assassination of John F. Kennedy (J.F.K), many conspiracy theories have evolved. More recently, conspiracists have sparked new interest in Kennedy’s death involving the supposed shooter, Lee Harvey Oswald. Focus has shifted to the belief that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was also involved in the assassination of JFK. Many witnesses have come forward to say that there is no real possibility of Oswald being the lone gunman. Part of the JFK conspiracy is that the CIA was involved in the assassination and its cover-up as well.

    Read More

  • Annotated Bibliography: Conspiracy Theories And Other Dangerous Ideas

    738 Words  | 3 Pages

    Annotated Bibliography Sunstein, Cass R. Conspiracy Theories & Other Dangerous Ideas. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2014. Print. In the article, Sunstein describes conspiracy theories and the effect they have on us.

    Read More

  • Was The Sandy Hook Massacre Really Be Left To Blame?

    893 Words  | 4 Pages

    On December 14, 2012 a 20 year old 120 pound autistic kid with assburgers syndrome strolled into Sandy Hook elementary school strapped and loaded with over forty pounds of weaponry and murdered 26 people in less than eleven minutes and killed a ratio of 26:1 at a 96 murder percentage rate, only injuring one unknown person by a rickshaw bullet in the foot. Thus making this uncoordinated, barley able to tie his own shoe, autistic, scrawny Adam Lanza the deadliest mass shooter of all time. Some conspersists have a hard time believing all this, I happen to be one of those conscpetist. Looking at this picture posted by the social security death index (SSDI) shows that Adam Lanza died on December 13, 2012, but as I mentioned before the Sandy Hook massacre did not happen until the 14th. Also take a close look at what I believe to be the most important thing, at the bottom of the picture it shows its confirmation, and this was proven to be right.

    Read More

  • Jfk Assassination Conspiracy Theory

    942 Words  | 4 Pages

    It’s the year 1976, the United States Senate has just called for a new inquiry into the infamous assassination of President John F. Kennedy, who was shot in 1963 during his own motorcade in Dallas, TX while running for re-election. The CIA along with the FBI were coaxed into releasing new documents on Lee Harvey Oswald, and individuals who had not given evidence previously were persuaded to come forward. Pieces of evidence such as sound recordings and photographs were being subjected to scientific research analysis using more modern equipment. In 1979 the House Select Committee on Assassinations, or (HCSA), finally came to a verdict that Lee Harvey Oswald shot three times at the president; one of which, hitting his head and killing him. It was also concluded that a fourth shot was taken from ‘the grassy knoll’, which was something that was contradicting to the statement given by the Warren Commission 16 years earlier.

    Read More

  • Jfk Assassination Conspiracy Essay

    703 Words  | 3 Pages

    Conspiracies. The list can go on and on: Area 51 and the “Aliens,” are secret societies controlling the world, were the moon landings faked, the CIA and the AIDS virus, etc. One of the most known and least understood conspiracy is, ‘did Lee Harvey Oswald work alone in the assassination of JFK?’ Although the evidence implied that Lee Oswald in the assassination, some citizens remained unconvinced that he had acted alone. There is substantial evidence showing the likelihood of a second gunman.

    Read More

  • Essay On Gun Violence In Schools

    651 Words  | 3 Pages

    What’s missing from the typical kindergartener’s backpack? A gun. The ultimate solution to gun violence is more guns, isn’t that obvious? We are in need of guns everywhere to the point where our nation needs armed guards in every school. They say the more guns we have, the more gun violence there is, but in fact it does the complete opposite and solves gun violence.

    Read More

  • Rhetorical Analysis On School Shootings

    889 Words  | 4 Pages

    This article has great viewpoints, use of argumentative reasoning, and shows what truly happens in the hallways of a school shooting. The main person he explains is Eric Harris, who killed over two-thousand students and faculty in a Colorado high school in 1998. He set off bombs all over the school and used a semi-automatic

    Read More

  • Analysis Of Malcolm Gladwell's Thresholds Of Violence

    1052 Words  | 5 Pages

    In his article, “Thresholds of violence” by Malcolm Gladwell, has effectively proven that the school shootings changed and they’ve became ritualized. From an incident, a group of three officers had arrived to the unit’s door step, and a young man stood in the center. The man became extremely defensive when one of the officers had to pat LaDue down. The officer had over heard that LaDue was making bombs in the storage locker, then had found a SKS assault rifle with sixty rounds of ammunition, a Beretta 9-mm, hand gun, including three ready-made explosive devices hidden in his bedroom. “There are far more things out in that unit than meet the eye” (Gladwell 2), exampling how there’s not only going to be a specific amount of bombs that would have

    Read More

  • Myth Or Historical Events Surrounding The Columbine High School Shooting

    1107 Words  | 5 Pages

    April 20, 1999, was far from peaceful in Littleton, Colorado. Two seniors, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered twelve students and one teacher before ultimately killing themselves at Columbine High School and injuring an additional twenty-three people. At the time of the shooting, Columbine was the most fatal school shooting in United States history. Myth is a story or historical event that unfolds part of the world’s view of people, beliefs, and natural phenomena (“Myth” 1). In a rush to make sense of the killings, the media spread a lot of information that was inaccurate.

    Read More

  • Misconceptions Of The Columbine Massacre

    1400 Words  | 6 Pages

    On December 14, 2012, a school shooting happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut. 26 people were killed; 6 adults and 20 children, all either aged 7 or 6 (Sandy Hook 2). This was a very tragic event for the world, much like other school shootings that came before and continue to come. Alex Jones, host of the radio show, “The Alex Jones Show”, claimed that the shooting was a hoax. According to Joanna Slater, “Within hours of the shooting, Jones was telling his audience that it was staged as a pretext for confiscating guns.

    Read More

  • Conspiracy Theories Of The Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

    1290 Words  | 6 Pages

    The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was one of the most horrific school shootings in our country in the last five years. Over the course of these years people have came out with many conspiracy theories that explain many different reasons why the shooting happened or what “actually” happened. The people that have came out with these conspiracies call themselves the Sandy Hook Truther Movement. Some of these conspiracies give reasons that there were multiple shooters, the shooter, Adam Lanza, died the day before the shooting, that crisis actors were used to give interviews to the media, the school nurse “got her script wrong” and that Adam Lanza did not use an assault rifle to kill the victims. On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza,

    Read More

  • Shooting at School: An Essay

    932 Words  | 4 Pages

    He was suicidal. Friends convinced him to shoot other people at school. (Transition: To summarize, the main causes of school shootings are easy access to guns, mental instability and trauma.) CONCLUSION I. (Summary statement) The three main causes of school shootings are easily accessible guns, mental instability and

    Read More

More about The Conspiracy Theory: The Sandy Hook Elementary Shootings

Open Document