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The Board of Supervisors of the city of San Francisco (California) unanimously approved a resolution declaring the National Rifle Association (NRA) as a " domestic terrorism " organization and urged other municipalities to follow suit.

The measure passed on Tuesday night qualifies the NRA as a "domestic terrorism" organization for inciting acts of violence, misinforming and disseminating propaganda about the use of weapons.

"The NRA conspires to limit the investigation of armed violence, and restrict the exchange of data on armed violence," said supervisor Catherine Stefani in presenting the resolution. "Most importantly, (the NRA) tries to block every piece of sensible legislation for the prevention of armed violence proposed at any level, be it local, state or federal," he added.

The vote took place three days after a man killed 7 people in Odessa, in Texas, and when a month of the shooting was completed he left 22 dead in a warehouse in El Paso, in the same state.

"All countries have violent and hateful people, but only in the United States do we give them immediate access to assault weapons and large-capacity magazines thanks, in large part, to the influence of the National Rifle Association," the statement says.

In its Twitter account, the NRA responded by saying that the resolution was "a reckless assault against a law-abiding organization, its members and the freedoms everyone defends."

In a statement sent to the KTVU television channel, the association called the resolution "an absurd trick of the Board of Supervisors in an effort to distract from the real problems facing San Francisco, such as the lack of unbridled housing, and abuse of drugs, "among others.

The resolution, which also encourages the city to evaluate and limit contracts with suppliers affiliated with the NRA, underlines that the country is suffering from an " epidemic of armed violence in the United States, which includes more than 36,000 deaths and 100,000 injuries each year."

In that sense, Stefani wanted to highlight the frequency with which the shootings are happening in the country. The supervisor prompted the resolution following the attack in late July in which four people lost their lives, including two Hispanic minors, at a festival in Gilroy, a community located 82 miles (131 kilometers) south of San Francisco . After this shooting there have been three other mass shootings in the country

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