San Francisco Declares the N.R.A. a ‘Domestic Terrorist Organization’ [nytimes.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 9/6/1912:00 PM

By Mariel Padilla, The New York Times, September 4, 2019

Unsettled by recent mass shootings across the nation, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a resolution this week declaring the National Rifle Association a domestic terrorist organization.

The resolution was introduced by Supervisor Catherine Stefani on July 30, two days after a shooting at a garlic festival in Gilroy, Calif., in which three people were killed and more than a dozen others injured.

Before the resolution was put to a vote on Tuesday, Ms. Stefani spoke about the “carnage across this country,” also citing mass shootings last month in El Paso; Dayton, Ohio; and near Odessa, Tex.

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