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The New York Daily News Just Doubled Down on Its Attack on the NRA
The New York Daily News Just Doubled Down on Its Attack on the NRA
Fri Dec. 4, 2015
Yesterday, the New York Daily News put up a controversial cover that I thought was pretty good. Today, they are out with another cover that, I've got to say, is a bit much for me. It calls the alleged perpetrator of Wednesday's massacre, Syed Farook, a terrorist (accurate!) and Robert Dear, Dylan Roof, Adam Lanza, and James Holmes terrorists (also accurate depending on your specific definition!), but then in the right hand corner it labels Wayne LaPierre, the head of the National Rifle Association, a terrorist.
Now, look, I'm not fan of the NRA, but they're not a terrorist organization and I don't think that term should be bandied about all willy-nilly. From 2001 to 2003, this shit happened all the time. Terrorists! Terrorists! Terrorist! Terrorists! It is not helpful. It stirs frenzy and panic in a population of people primed for frenzy and panic. We should use that term when it really makes sense, not just for political groups we disagree with.
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Re: The New York Daily News Just Doubled Down on Its Attack on the NRA
The NRA deserves severe criticism.
If someone gets a little carried away, well that's nothing compared to the NRA's deliberate misrepresentation of the President's executive action.
They have no cause to whine.
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.