Outrage In Newtown After GA Rep. Doubts Sandy Hook Shootings

NEWTOWN, CT — A newly-elected congresswoman agreed in 2018 that the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School was staged, according to social media posts that surfaced this week.

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, representing Georgia's 14th congressional district, responded "That is all true" to a commenter who said that the school shootings in Parkland, FL and Sandy Hook were not as they seemed

"None of the School shootings were real or done by the ones who were supposedly arrested for them," according to the Facebook commenter.

In addition, the 1981 Reagan assassination attempt and the 9/11 terrorist attacks were both enabled by factions within the U.S. government, the Facebook commenter said in the same post.

The notion that the December 2012 shootings, which killed 26 people, at Sandy Hook were somehow staged as a "false flag" event has been a popular one among conspiracy theorists, most notably Info Wars host Alex Jones. In October, Jones' lawyer went on record saying that his client no longer believes the shooting was a hoax.

On her Twitter feed, Greene apparently accepted the reality of the Parkland shootings, saying they were "tragic" and could have been prevented by "good guys with guns."

Twitter temporarily suspended Greene's account on Jan. 17 for "multiple violations" of Twitter’s "civic integrity policy," according to Reuters.

"This kind of dangerous and irresponsible thinking is disgusting and appalling, and it is even more reprehensible when it comes from an elected official whose focus should be on keeping children safe," commented Mark Barden, managing director of Sandy Hook Promise, who lost his son Daniel in the shooting. "Jackie and I demand that she renounce these theories and that she be held accountable for spreading these vile statements that put our families at further risk of violence."

Greene ran on a strong anti-gun control platform, and believes her suspension on Twitter is part of a larger attempt by technology companies to silence conservative points of view. She posted on Facebook:

"This war on our second amendment is going to continue and must be fought. I am told that Nancy Pelosi tells Hillary Clinton several times a month that 'we need another school shooting' in order to persuade the public to want strict gun control.

"Also, the censorship on social media is so severe and will continue to get worse. The goal is to ban conservative and patriot voices in order to continue to brainwash the public and the next generation into liberal democratic socialist thinking."

National gun control advocacy groups March for Our Lives-Parkland, Moms Demand Action, and Everytown for Gun Safety have called for Greene's resignation.

Locally, Nicole Hockley, managing director of Sandy Hook Promise, invited Greene to visit Sandy Hook and see for herself.

"I invite Rep. Greene and anyone else who believes that the Sandy Hook tragedy was anything but the massacre it was, to come to Newtown,” Hockley said. "I will show you the urn that holds my beautiful butterfly Dylan’s ashes and his bullet-hole-riddled sweatshirt. Then we can talk about how to make sure this never happens again to anyone else."