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  • "We have presidents from more than 40 states: red states and blue states, urban states and rural states," Lawrence Schall, president of Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, said at a news conference in Washington organized by Mayors Against Illegal Guns. "We have presidents who have never owned a gun and we have presidents who have led our armed forces into war."

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