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On the recordJune 4, 2018
Well, you are studying things like how much time they spend on video games and all that, but you can go to a lot of other countries where they spend just as much time but have only a tiny fraction of the shootings that we do.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

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Leahy highlights the disparity in gun violence compared to other countries.

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