Las Vegas
Sandy Hook
San Bernardino
9/11
After all of these horrific events, we as a country struggle to comprehend how and why they happened.
This is just human nature.
We can’t wrap our brains around the true evil and insanity that make up these tragedies, especially when they happen so close to home.
It's not logical when a man fires an automatic rifle into a large crowd of concert goers, killing 59 and injuring hundreds more.
This lapse of logic leaves our heads filled with questions as we try to make some sense of this unthinkable act.
How did he get all of those weapons?
How did a 64 year old man get all of those weapons past people in the hotel lobby and into his hotel room?
Why on earth would someone do something like this?
These are all valid questions.
What isn’t valid, what isn’t right, is when you take these questions and twist them into something else. A lot of people will jump on the politicians who will take an event like this and try to politicize it. Whether this is right or wrong is a matter for another debate at another time, but as morally gray as it is, its politicians job to create the laws that would prevent these types of disasters from ever happening again.
Or at least it should be.
That is not who I’m condemning today.
Who I’m calling out are the people who twist these questions into a conspiracy theory.
From the toxic mouthpiece Alex Jones to the people on your facebook timeline sharing shakey phone clips vaguely showing nothing. These people are manipulating your anger and confusion about the atrocities of the world in order to warp your perception. If you believe their one conspiracy, you’re more likely to believe them down the road when they tell you to buy their super supplements, or go investigate a pizza shop.
This is a very dangerous path to go down.
It's also an incredibly disrespectful one.
When you feed into the craziness of these conspiracy theories, you disrespect all of those involved in the actual tragedies you’re just glossing over. These are people with families, friends, people who cared about them, and you’re reducing them to nothing more than a pawn in a plot against you.
Even worse is those of you who try to “take actions into your own hands”.
Could you imagine the horrific scenario of losing your child to the bullet of a crazed gunman, only to receive death threats in the mail because of this loss.
That’s the despicable reality people live in because of these theories.
I understand why people fall victim to these lies, I do.
We can’t comprehend that the world can contain such uncomprehendable and unneeded losses of life. So we create a false reality in which 59 paid actors laid down and pretended to be dead. How much better would it be if we didn't need to bury so many innocent American citizens.
Sadly, that's not the world we live in.
We live in an illogical world where horrific tragedies like these should be prevented, but aren't.
So instead of attacking those immediately affected, struggling through the grieving processes that no one should have to go through, be mindful and stop feeding into these conspiracies.