Oregon Sheriff Investigating Shooting Posted Sandy Hook Conspiracy Video in 2013

The Oregon sheriff who’s overseeing the investigation into the horrific Oregon college shooting once posted a Sandy Hook truther video to his Facebook page.

Yes, in case you you have been fortunate enough thus far to live your life unaware of the worst reactions to tragedy humanity has to offer, every time there’s a shooting like in Newtown there are lots of insane conspiracy theories.

Sandy Hook in particular spawned a lot of conspiracy theories, and it turns out that Douglas County, Oregon sheriff John Hanlin––the one who has appeared at multiple press conferences to update the public on details of the horrible Umpqua Community College shooting––posted this to his Facebook page two years ago:

That video in question puts forth the theory that the feds staged Sandy Hook so they could use it to implement more gun control and if you want to see just how crazy it is you can watch here yourself:

Hanlin––who sent a letter to Vice President Joe Biden shortly after that shooting saying he will not enforce any gun control legislation whatsoever––told CNN when asked that it’s “not a conspiracy theory that I have.” After the post started getting circulated around it was taken down.

Below you can see other posts that people noticed on Hanlin’s Facebook page:

[h/t TPM]
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