Reader’s view: Newtown shootings probably done to help GOP

In a column Sunday (Local View: “Why the Sandy Hook shootings matter”), UMD’s Jim Fetzer suggested the real culprits in the Connecticut school shootings were “part of an escalating series of covert operations to promote public hysteria to incite gun control and subvert the Second Amendment.” That was his interpretation, and it plays into right-wing paranoia about the government and gun control.