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I find it disturbing that under this definition of WMD, what the US does with Drones almost each day is certainly also massive.

Is a gun a weapon of mass destruction? Why not?

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Its probably more about the anonymous killing of multiple random people vs the actual number of people killed. A gun may kill many, but the shooter must do some selection of each one.

This isn't true with a high-powered rifle being shot into a crowd...

I think an assault rifle would've done a lot more damage than the pressure cooker.

Because the NRA.

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