Did the July 4th Shooting at Highland Park Really Take Place?

Ready? Here comes the single craziest statement that anyone has ever made about gun violence in the United States.

And who made it? None other than Marjorie Taylor Greene who said in a podcast that the recent mass shootings in Highland Park on July 4th were ‘staged.’

Why was the shooting which killed seven people and injured dozens more nothing other than a phony event? Because it would galvanize public opinion and push Republicans to support gun control.

That’s what she said. She really did. Which is why we have the 1st Amendment in this country so that people like MJT can get away with saying such loony, hurtful things.

Except maybe they can’t, if it turns out that what they said really did result in someone else getting hurt. After all, the Constitution doesn’t protect someone who stands up and yells ‘fire!’ in a crowded theater, right?

It just so happens that one of America’s most notorious fire-throwers, Alex Jones of Infowars, will be shortly going on trial both in Texas and Connecticut for having promoted the idea that the Sandy Hook massacre was faked, a non-stop series of talking points on his show which resulted in harassments and death threats suffered by the parents of children murdered at Sandy Hook.