Marco Rubio accidently makes grandiose argument for gun-control

[DetlefK]

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/12/4/1456905/-In-wake-of-mass-shooting-Marco-Rubio-wonders-why-we-re-not-talking-about-bomb-control-instead

“When this first came out– without knowing anything about the case — the first thing the left started talking about was gun control,” Rubio said. “I don’t hear anybody talking about bomb control. They put bombs and left bombs behind on the scene of attack, intending to kill even more people than they did with guns.”

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Two things. First, we have bomb control. You are not allowed to own a bomb, or carry a bomb on your back while visiting your neighborhood Chipotle. Not even if you claim you need a bomb for self-protection, or because you're afraid there are other people out there with other bombs who might try to bomb you first. We’re not stupid, after all. You cannot buy ready-made bombs at Walmart, because Walmart is not allowed to sell ready-made mass murder devices. Even those Americans that are permitted to own and operate bombs (for example, for excavation purposes) face very, very tight state and federal regulations and restrictions; as for the rest of us, outside of military service we are allowed to be in personal possession of a mass-murder-sized bomb approximately never.

Perhaps because America has bomb control, our nation faces no epidemic of bomb-related mass murders.

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If bomb control has been so successful, that would seem to indicate a fine path for reducing mass murder via guns as well.

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Yep, let's do that. Let's compare gun control to bomb control, Mr. Rubio. Let's all do that right now.