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What are the conspiracy theories around the Sandy Hook massacre?

This entry catalogues the conspiracy theories circulated about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting — that the massacre was staged, never happened, or used 'crisis actors'. All are thoroughly debunked; the entry documents them as false beliefs, not facts.

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The massacre was actually orchestrated by the U.S. government as part of an elaborate plot to promote stricter gun control laws

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The massacre never happened

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"Israeli death squads" did the shooting

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Adam Lanza was accompanied by another shooter

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Adam Lanza's father was an executive with GE Energy Financial Services

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Timestamps of memorial sites prove a coverup

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No one died" at Sandy Hook Elementary School because the Uniform Crime Reports showed no murders in Newtown for 2012, and that the victims were "child actors