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Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The government should deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrasing Amendment.

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George Will
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: May 4
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George F. Will
George Frederick Will
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