In wake of mass shooting, Marco Rubio wonders why we're not talking about 'bomb control' instead

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In wake of mass shooting, Marco Rubio wonders why we're not talking about 'bomb control' instead

by Hunter at Daily Kos

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

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It's been a long time since we've been able to refer to anyone in the Republican Party as the smart one. In his pouting would-be analysis of the San Bernardino mass murder, Marco Rubio demonstrates why he will never be that guy.

“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.”

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. There are some—most in recent decades perpetrated by radical far-right groups against government targets or as part of anti-abortion extremism—but we do not have bombs going off on a daily basis in cities around the nation, the bodies piling up in our trauma centers and in our morgues while our politicians wonder what, if anything, should be done. That would seem to offer at least some evidence that our "bomb controls" are, despite the continued ability of some very small band of lunatics to create bombs despite the obstacles we have thrust in their way, working.



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[saturnsring]

1. yea we should have tank control too, marco better get on that

[shadowmayor]

2. And Wolverines, who's controlling the wolverines?

Time to start putting underwear on dogs - no more exposed doggie balls and peckers that might harm our children. And no more librul bumper stickers. And especially we need more bomb control! And Ebola!

[ZX86]

3. Nobody was killed from their home made bombs.

If they had to make their guns themselves more likely than not nobody would have been killed either. The vast majority of these self radicalized terrorists seem to have a lot of passion for mass murder but not too much skill in bomb making. I doubt their gunsmithing kills are any better. The Ted Kaczynskis of the world are an exception.

There is no shortage of stories of failed bombings the last few years. MLK parade, PP clinics, Black churches, Times Square, etc. and plenty of suicide bombers who can't seem to make it to their target before they explode.

Pretending that easy access to professionally made mass murder devices doesn't contribute to the body count at these terror attacks is delusional.