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The vast majority of gun owners don't kill, but people who do kill, tend to kill with guns, and often with illegal guns.

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Alan Dershowitz
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: September 1
Lawyer
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Brooklyn
New York
Alan M. Dershowitz
Alan Morton Dershowitz
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