NRA accounts go dark after Sandy Hook shooting

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The National Rifle Association has put its social media accounts on lock-down, and you don’t have to dig deep to see why. The last tweet from the association’s main account, sent at 9:36 a.m. Friday, shortly before news of the Newtown, Conn. shooting broke, earned dozens of outraged responses in the hours after.

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