997,500 Milk Cartons

Steve Chapman takes a turn at Unraveling strange logic at the Chicago Tribune.

An organization called the Million Mom March held a rally in Washington on Mother's Day to urge a renewal of the 1994 assault weapons ban. If you must know, the turnout was about 997,500 short. But the advocates are not easily discouraged. Afterward, they launched a vehicle called the Big Pink Rig on a "Halt the Assault Tour." The bus will crisscross the nation between now and September, when the ban is scheduled to expire.

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[S]imple realities, are lost on groups like the Million Mom March and the Violence Policy Center. For every failure of gun control, they have a solution: More of it.

...something we've known for quite some time.