NRA an accomplice in San Bernardino’s shootout

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December 4, 2015 - 12:00 AM

Whether Wednesday’s massacre in San Bernardino was an act of terrorism or simply another hate crime is a matter of semantics.
According to federal law, a mass shooting can be considered a terrorist act if the violence was intended to intimidate or influence government policy.
My take is that the National Rifle Association will once again use the tragedy as a means to intimidate the American people and influence government policy and as such, it is, at the least, an accomplice to a terrorist act.
The NRA will twist the horror of Wednesday into a call for fewer…

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