One day after the Parkland, Florida, mass shooting, a National Rifle Association official contacted an Infowars contributor and serial harasser of Sandy Hook parents to build conspiracy theories about Parkland. The NRA’s Mark Richardson emailed Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist Wolfgang Halbig, saying, “Just like [Sandy Hook], there is so much more to this story” and “[The Parkland shooter] was not alone.”
Richardson’s email to Halbig strongly suggests that he, too, embraces conspiracy theories that 20 young children and six adults were not, in fact, massacred at Sandy Hook Elementary School. “You have included me with a lot of Information since the Sandy Hook Incident and I do appreciate it very much,” the email opens, before a litany of questions about how exactly a heavily armed killer was able to enter Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, as if those questions are going to tear apart a false story. Because never in American history has a heavily armed killer entered a school, right?
Richardson is an NRA training officer and program coordinator. Halbig has claimed that the children murdered at Sandy Hook weren’t actually murdered at Sandy Hook, and “has spammed open records requests to Newtown officials for documents related to the cleanup of ‘bodily fluids, brain matter, skull fragments and around 45-60 gallons of blood,’ The New York Times reported.”