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Dahleen Glanton: Strange times in Gunland America

In the weeks since a deranged gunman walked into a high school in Parkland, Fla., and slaughtered 17 people with an AR-15 assault rifle, some bizarre things involving guns have happened in America.

A teacher in Georgia barricaded himself in a classroom and fired a gun, leading to a frantic lockdown and evacuation of the school.

A suburban Chicago man heard a woman screaming in his apartment building and went to her rescue with an AR-15, and later boasted that the attacker was "a half a breath away from getting his head blown off."

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