The New York Daily News’ increasingly bitter personal campaign against National Rifle Association took an ugly turn Thursday, as it outright accused the gun group’s president being an actual terrorist.
The newspaper’s crusade against the NRA continues after two suspects, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, 27, stormed the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, Calif., this week, killing 14 and injuring 21.
“He’s a terrorist,” the paper’s Friday edition said in reference to Farook.
“But so are these guys,” the headline continued, as it listed the names and photos of four recent mass shooters, including Robert Dear, Dylann Roof, Adam Lanza and James Holmes.
Added at the very end of the New York Daily News’ list of terrorists is NRA president Wayne LaPierre.
“And this guy,” the headline said in big bold letters above LaPierre’s picture.
“Syed Farook joins long list of murderous psychos enabled by NRA’s sick gun jihad against America in the name of profit,” the newspaper finished.
Dear, 57, shot and killed three people last week as he stormed a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colo. He is currently awaiting trial. He is due in court on Dec. 9, 2015, for his second appearance before a judge.
Roof, 21, shot and killed nine African-American churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., in June, explaining at the time that he wanted to start a “race war.” Authorities announced on July 22, 2015, that Roof would face 33 federal hate crime charges, including 18 that call for the federal death penalty.
Lanza, 23, shot and killed 20 children and six adults on Dec. 14, 2012, at the now-demolished Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Lanza committed suicide shortly after the massacre.
Holmes, 27, shot and killed 12 people in 2012 at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo. A jury found him guilty on July 16, 2016, on twenty-four counts of first-degree murder and 140 counts of attempted first-degree murder.
Noticeably absent from the paper’s who’s who of recent mass shooters is Christopher Harper-Mercer, Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, Christopher Dorner, Aaron Alexis and Nidal Hasan.
Harper-Mercer, 26, entered the Umpqua Community College near Roseburg, Ore. on October 1, 2015, killing nine and injuring nine more. He killed himself before authorities could take him into custody.
Abdulazeez, 24, attacked two military recruiting centers in Chattanooga, Tenn., on July 16, 2015, killing four United States Marines and injuring a sailor, a Marine Corp recruiter and a police officer. He was killed later in a shootout with police.
Dorner, 33, shot and killed four people during a nine-day rampage in 2013 that ended with him taking his own life.
Alexis, a 34-year-old civilian contractor, entered the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 16, 2013, and killed 12 people before police managed to bring him down.
Hasan, 45, arrived for work at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, on Nov. 5, 2009, and opened fire on U.S. servicemen, killing 13 and injuring 30 more.
This isn’t the first time that the Daily News has associated LaPierre with terrorists. The paper referred to the NRA chief as “Jihadi Wayne” as recently as November of this year.
