Antonio Basco cries beside a cross at a makeshift memorial near the scene of a mass shooting at a shopping complex in El Paso, Texas, earlier this month. Basco’s wife was among 22 people fatally shot on Aug. 3. Photo: John Locher/AP
Last week, in the anguishing fallout from the most recent mass slaughter of innocents by a white supremacist gunman in El Paso, Texas, New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo showed some much-needed leadership. He forcefully acknowledged that terrorism “is now a two-front war,” fed by “hate from abroad and hate from right here at home.”
The greatest internal threat, Cuomo said, comes from “[w]hite supremacists, anti-Semites, and anti-LGBTQ white nationalists” who are “committing mass hate crimes against other Americans.” And because federal law does not criminalize domestic terrorism as a distinct offense, Cuomo called for New York State to enact its own, new domestic terrorism law that punishes mass violence motivated by hate. The proposed law would also create a task force to study and confront this evil.
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