Gun Control
The looming showdown.
Remember gun control? said George Will in The Washington Post. The right of American citizens to own and carry weapons used to be a hot-button political issue, debated as passionately as abortion or gay marriage is today. Then Democrats decided the gun issue was costing them millions of votes in the West and South, and quietly shelved the matter. Well, it
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