gun control, and after being deluged with news about controlling Assad's chemical weapons, I just had to make the comparison.

All of the NRA justifications for unbridled gun distribution seem to work just fine when it comes to chemical weapons. If only Assad had Wayne LaPierre, he'd be doing much better in the eyes of the world.

An attention-getting mass shooting like that at the Navy Yard just barely scratches the surface of the problem with guns in the United States. The real weapons of mass destruction that don't discriminate between young and old, combatant and noncombatant, are running rampant in cities like Oakland, Detroit and Chicago."

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