The water just got a lot hotter for Alex Jones

Imagine the trauma of having your child gunned down in a horrible school shooting. Then imagine some creep trying to make money off of your child’s death by selling a phony story that it had never really happened, that it was all a [HASH]GovernmentConspiracy designed to take people’s guns away, and that your grief was simply a staged part of the plan, your child’s death was faked and you were a “crisis actor.” Imagine then having to witness someone running for the office of the [HASH]PresidentoftheUnitedStates telling people that this creep was an “amazing” man, singing his praises, and nodding in approval, on the same morning that fourteen more people were killed with assault weapons.

You can’t imagine that, not for more than a second. No one can. But maybe in that brief second you can understand how the parents of the children killed at [HASH]SandyHookElementarySchool in 2012 must feel about radio host and conspiracy purveyor Alex Jones, and why they’re suing him for defamation.