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Commentary: What the Second Amendment says — and doesn't say — about guns

Survivors of the massacre at a Parkland, Fla., high school have held vigils, angrily chanting "No more guns!" They've demanded that state legislators outlaw the AR-15, the kind of rapid-fire weapon with which 17 of their classmates and staff members were killed.

Other students added their voices to the anti-gun-violence chorus. In Washington, D.C., they marched on the U.S. Capitol, shouting: "Our blood, your hands!"

Similar expressions of pain and frustration, outrage and determination, have followed previous school

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