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Dahleen Glanton: No matter what type of gun is used in school shootings, innocent people end up dead

This time, the school shooter did not use an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle to slaughter his classmates. That must be quite a relief to gun lovers.

This killer's weapons of choice were a shotgun and a .38-caliber handgun - two of the most common firearms available. What more proof do we need, gun lovers will ask, that the problem isn't with guns but rather with people?

The folks on Capitol Hill might rest easy too. Seventeen-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis did not obtain the guns illegally through some loophole in the law, authorities said. The guns he allegedly used to kill nine students and

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