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From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point.

Gun control and the race to the White House.

Hello again, I'm Warren Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

A daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

For the first time since Al Gore lost to George W. Bush, Democrats are pushing for gun control in a presidential campaign.

President Obama is using his bully pulpit to explain admittedly modest executive actions

guaranteed to get the political pot boiling.

Sure enough, Hillary Clinton's embracing them while Republicans are predictably outraged.

With California enacting new restrictions, while Texas goes for open carry, which party is taking the greatest risk in a national campaign?

Today's talking point, terrorism inspires panic.

Whatever happened to rational thought?

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Program Fund. Hello again, Warmin Alney, back with To the Point. Despite mass shootings,

including the slaughter of children in Newtown, Connecticut, Congress has refused President

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