The New York Daily News doubled down on its war against the NRA Friday with a second straight hard-hitting cover on this week’s shooting massacre in San Bernadino, California.
The tabloid newspaper’s cover calls shooting suspect Syed Farook a “terrorist,” but says so are four other alleged mass killers, all white men: Dylann Roof, Adam Lanza, Robert Dear and James Holmes. The paper also applies the terrorist label to NRA leader Wayne LaPierre, crediting him will killing “countless” gun laws.
“Syed Farook joins long list of murderous psychos enabled by NRA’s sick gun jihad against America in the name of profit,” the paper’s cover reads.
Investigators have said Farook appears to have been radicalized, but have not determined to what degree, and have not called the shooting terrorism.
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— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) December 4, 2015
The NRA did not immediately respond to a request for comment from MSNBC on the Daily News cover.
Following Wednesday’s massacre, which killed 14 people and injured over 20, President Obama called for stricter gun laws, but never mentioned the NRA by name. In response, Chris Cox, the executive director for the NRA, wrote an op-ed for USA Today on Thursday, in which he accused Obama of blaming gun violence on Cox’s organization.
“The NRA is calling on the president to stop exploiting tragedies to push his failed political agenda. It’s shameful,” wrote Cox. “The NRA will neither accept the blame for the acts of murderers, nor apologize for fighting for our right to defend ourselves against them.”
Several Democrat-sponsored gun control amendments went down to defeat in Congress on Thursday, with the majority of Republicans opposing them in partisan votes. Obama has said in the past that the failure to pass “common sense” gun legislation during his tenure in office is one of the biggest disappointments of his presidency. In October, during the fifteenth press conference of his presidency in reaction to a mass shooting, Obama said: “Thoughts and prayers are not enough.”
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