"QAnon had grown out of another conspiracy theory — Pizzagate — that commandeered the issue of child sex trafficking to spread pro-Trump propaganda. Pizzagate was so effective in convincing one man that pedophile Democrats were abusing children in the basement of a Washington pizza restaurant that in 2016, he showed up with an AR-15 to “rescue” the nonexistent children. He was sentenced to four years in prison for the three shots he fired into the restaurant." - https://www.washingtonpost.com...