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US Congressman shot, gun control politics to follow
It was the Louisiana congressman's love of the game that came between Americans and the massacre of their nightmares.
Paul McGeough is chief foreign correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald.
It was the Louisiana congressman's love of the game that came between Americans and the massacre of their nightmares.
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