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Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

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Eliot Spitzer
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: June 10
Former Governor Of New York
Lawyer
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New York City
New York
The Sheriff of Wall Street
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