Washington Post Argues NRA Isn’t A ‘Terrorist Organization’

By Tom Knighton

For a while now, anti-gun voices have been screaming that the National Rifle Association is a terrorist organization. Of course, it’s a group that condemns terrorism and has no members who have carried out any form of terrorist attack, but they still scream and push for this.

As noted on Thursday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors decided that those voices are right and declared the NRA a terrorist organization.

It’s unsurprising that voices rose up in defense of the NRA. It’s surprising that they rose up from the pages of the Washington Post, though.

Liberals often wonder where conservatives get the notion that they are hated and despised. Wonder no more: Just look at the San Francisco Board of Supervisors’ resolution labeling the National Rifle Association a “domestic terrorist organization.”

Words matter, and there are few words that stigmatize a person faster than calling him or her a terrorist. A terrorist by definition is someone who engages in terrorism, and terrorism is defined as “the systematic use of violence to create a general climate of fear in a population and thereby to bring about a particular political objective.” To be a terrorist organization, therefore, the …Read the Rest

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