{"id":328966,"date":"2017-10-04T14:53:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T13:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-nras-latest-terrorist-attack-on-u-s-soil\/"},"modified":"2017-10-04T14:53:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T13:53:42","slug":"the-nras-latest-terrorist-attack-on-u-s-soil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-nras-latest-terrorist-attack-on-u-s-soil\/","title":{"rendered":"The NRA\u2019s Latest Terrorist Attack on U.S. Soil"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_96383\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96383\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-03-at-9.44.35-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-03-at-9.44.35-PM.png 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-03-at-9.44.35-PM-300x189.png 300w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-03-at-9.44.35-PM-768x485.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Rusty Clark ~ 100K Photos | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s long past time to start understanding the giant mass shootings that have become part of the new-normal fabric of life in the United States as terrorist attacks on the U.S. populace conducted by the nation\u2019s plutocracy through one of its key and rightward campaign funding, lobbying, and policy organizations \u2013 the National Rifle Association (NRA).<\/p>\n<p>We know the drill. The venues are different each time \u2013 an elite private college campus in Virginia, a public university lecture hall in northern Illinois, a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, an elementary school in Connecticut, a Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, a gay dance club in Orlando, and now an open-air concert in Las Vegas (site of the biggest single-gunman mass-shooting ever) \u2013 but the story is always the same.<\/p>\n<p>A demented male psychopath gathers ammunition and weaponry made available to him through loose gun laws passed by federal and state governments thanks to the deep pockets of the NRA. The shooter takes his NRA-sponsored weapons of mass destruction wreaks mass-murderous havoc on soft-target innocents.\u00a0 The incident usually includes the shooter\u2019s death (the Aurora and Charleston killings are exceptions), typically by suicide. The authorities interview the shooter\u2019s family members and associates. Local and federal police search his dwelling. belongings, computer, online record, and history to determine his motives, how he planned the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/10\/04\/the-nras-latest-terrorist-attack-on-u-s-soil\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Rusty Clark ~ 100K Photos | CC BY 2.0 It\u2019s long past time to start understanding the giant mass shootings that have become part of the new-normal fabric of life in the United States as terrorist attacks on the U.S. populace conducted by the nation\u2019s plutocracy through one of its key and rightward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-328966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}