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  • 10
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    2013
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    In Big Easy, mentoring program aimed at youths reduces gun deaths

    Murders in New Orleans are down by half this month after a new approach aimed at educating and mentoring youth.  NBC's Lester Holt reports.

    Complete coverage: "Flashpoint: Guns in America"

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    Where is all of the media showing all of the times that a firearm saved a life, or prevented a robbery, or a rape? I guess that would make it hard for good ole odumbass to get his agenda through so they will not want to show any of those!!! The facts are that for every one death that is connected to …

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