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Debunking the Gun Free Zone Myth: “Mass Murder Magnets”
Jun 19, 2015, 3:11 PM 47
Note: This column originally appeared in The Trace In the wake of the Wednesday shooting at a Charleston, S.C., church that left nine people dead, John R. Lott Jr., the prominent researcher whose work is embraced in gun-rights circles, offered a…

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