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Barack Obama: “My name is Natalie Barden, and I wanted to tell the president that only police officers and the military should get…”

On the recordDecember 17, 2012
My name is Natalie Barden, and I wanted to tell the president that only police officers and the military should get guns. If people want to do it as a sport then they could go to a shooting range, and the guns would not be able to leave there.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

A child expresses her views on gun control in a letter intended for President Obama.

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