How Would Sheriff in Oregon Shooting Feel If Public Listened to Those Claiming it Never Happened?

 

Oregon Sheriff John Hanlin

There are 2 lessons we should be grappling with in the wake of this last shooting. which left 10 dead including the shooter who committed suicide. The first, of course, is that the easy availability of a military arsenal will always lead to the most unstable among us murdering  innocent people en masse. But unlike previous mass shootings, the tragedy that occurred on the Umpqua College campus in Roseburg, Oregon has an additional, heartrending lesson for the rest of us. Sheriff John Hanlin  had himself gone on the Internet and posted a conspiracy video, claiming the Sandy Hook shooting never happened. According to the Sheriff''s interpretation of those events, the parents of the dead children were making up this tragedy to impose gun control on the American public. Imagine an even deeper pain that town must endure from knowing that their grief was dismissed as the work of paid actors.

Even though Sheriff Hanlin is in the midst of grieving a loss, he owes the town of Sandy Hook and all of us who were hurt by the callousness of that  conspiracy mongering, a personal apology. Actually, he also needs to do something more. That is, he must publicly expose that kind of twisted conspiratorial thinking or step down from his job.