Alex Jones on guns in America (2013)

CNN’s Piers Morgan talks to Alex Jones, the man behind the petition to deport him, over his gun control views. === Why the horror from weapons used in mass killings won’t lead to them being banned Analysis by Stephen Collinson Yet another massacre is yielding horrific descriptions of body-shattering carnage from the killing machines of choice for America’s mass shooters. The now familiar rituals of these tragedies come with a new dimension -- physicians describing exactly what such weapons do, which are details that were previously unmentioned out of respect for the dead. This coincides with a wave of fury and incomprehension among victims’ relatives and Americans who want to change the easy availability of rifles that can claim multiple lives in seconds. And there are new calls for a renewal of a long-expired assault weapons ban that Republicans, claiming infringements on constitutional rights, refuse to contemplate. Read more at: === From Fringe to Frontline: How Alex Jones stoked many of the conspiracy theories taking hold in today’s Republican party By Rob Kuznia On a January night in 2002, a 37-year-old man donned a patriotic-themed uniform, covered his face with a skull mask and activated a long-held plan. Armed with a .45-caliber pistol, crossbow, makeshift bomb launcher, 2-foot-long sword and double-barreled shotgun/assault rifle hybrid, Richard McCaslin made his way into a forest north of San Francisco. His mission: to find and expose a secretive group of elites who — he wrongly believed — engaged in child abuse and human sacrifice. On a January afternoon nearly 20 years later, another man made his way from California to Washington, DC, on a quest to vanquish elites who, he wrongly believed, had stolen the presidential election from Donald Trump. Daniel Rodriguez, then 38, joined the mob that besieged the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. During the battle to breach the building, Rodriguez used a stun gun on a police officer, who would suffer a heart attack and traumatic brain injury. Both McCaslin and Rodriguez said they had been inspired by a fiery conspiracy theory peddler named Alex Jones. Read more at: