Fake news, real bullets: Suspect with rifle arrested at DC restaurant named in Pizzagate story

[Snarkoleptic]

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/suspect-with-assault-rifle-arrested-at-dc-restaurant-named-online-in-fake-news-pizzagate-story/

Police arrested a gunman armed with an assault weapon at a Washington, D.C. restaurant named in a fake pro-Trump news story that spread online.

The Washington Post said no shots were fired and no one was injured at Comet Ping Pong, a Northwest Washington pizza restaurant with ping pong tables that are popular with families.

A phony online news story that circulated days before the Nov. 8 election said that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and a top campaign aide were running a child sex ring out of the back room at Comet Ping Pong.

The story was one of many canards floated by pro-Trump propaganda mills. Not a word of it was true, but the restaurant’s employees and their families have been receiving death threats and other forms of harassment since the phony story circulated, which is known in right-wing conspiracy circles as “#Pizzagate.”

[Vinca]

1. Amazing. I love one of the comments to the story about wishing the idiots were too stupid

to remember to breathe.

[Warren DeMontague]

2. Yeah, all this crazy fucking Alex Jones nutjob conspiracy bargle has real-world implications.

[Snarkoleptic]

3. I was reminded of the PP fake baby-parts story and how

it got PP attacked in Colorado.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. There are a large number of people who aren't even living in the same reality as the rest of us

Consensus reality depends on consensus and there is no longer even consensus as to what constitutes critical thinking, evidence, or "facts"

[suegeo]

8. I thought of that PP story too

Then I was disappointed in myself because I could not remember the number of people who were murdered. I think, 3.

On edit: here's a snip from Wikipedia on the murder:
On November 27, 2015, a gunman attacked a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado.[1][2] A police officer and two civilians were killed; five police officers and four civilians were injured.[3][4] After a standoff that lasted five hours,[1][5] police SWAT teams crashed armored vehicles into the lobby and the attacker surrendered.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Springs_Planned_Parenthood_shooting

[Snarkoleptic]

9. And somehow the guy who did it, came out alive.

Had it been a POC, I suspect there would have been a vastly different outcome.

[Solly Mack]

4. What people believe, especially the outrageous, does matter. Facts DO matter.

[Warren DeMontague]

6. A far harder nut to crack, however, is how to disabuse them of these delusions.

I mean, an article in the Times or Post calling this "story" bullshit just further convinces them "Aha! We're on to something, because the Illuminati Media Lizard-Jews are trying to shut it down!"

[Solly Mack]

7. You're right, sadly. Facts put them on the defensive and they double down.

It is as if facts are an attack on their very being. You present a fact, and they think you've insulted them instead of giving them necessary information.

From personal experience I know you can show proof that President Obama is not "taking our guns", but the person listening is steadfast in their belief that he has confiscated guns from people and continues to do so. Never mind the person is sitting in a house with a full gun cabinet. (their own)

I'm not sure what the answer is, but I do know it won't be a quick fix.