If the NRA were in charge of preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS, their answer would be to infect everybody.

Every time an incident like the horrific massacre in Newtown, Connecticut drives the public’s collective cognition to firearms, the gun nuts from the NRA jump up and down yelling about the Second Amendment, at least the half of it they chant like scripture. They always leave out the part about a well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, but I’ve already harpooned that point to death. Every time we make the slightest effort to get dangerous weapons out of our culture, they make that same tired “slippery slope” argument. But now their mouthpiece, Wayne LaPierre, wants …

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