Why are stupid people so susceptible to conspiracy theories ?

@NankerPhelge I think about those in my country who were trying to claim that these school shootings are “staged” and nobody has really died. That’s an example of conspiracy theorists who prefer them to ugly truths.

@bijouxbroussard That's not a conspiracy theory, that's just an ugly lie. If people died in such a situation then they died and there is no getting away from it. The reason [i]why[/i] it happened is another matter entirely.

@NankerPhelge Understood. But the people who believe it are so invested in the theory that gun control advocates within the government “staged” the massacre of little children. To the point that believers have accused the parents of the dead children of being [b]liars[/b], to their faces. 😞

@bijouxbroussard One of my pet hates is false accusation anyway, but lying is another of my pet hates, so that makes falsely accusing people of lying worse than ever. And it's even worse still when they do it after 1970. They are the ones who should be massacred, not innocent children.