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On the recordDecember 8, 2014
But you can never really know my boy because an angry man who owned a gun, kept it close at hand and chose to demonstrate unbridled hatred one balmy evening for reasons I will never understand.
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Lucy McBath
Democratic · Georgia

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McBath reflects on her son's death and the senselessness of gun violence.

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