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Mixing guns and racism

In Illinois, as in all the rest of the states, it's legal to carry a concealed handgun, unless you're at a ballgame or in the library or a number of other designated public places. But one of those places is not the corner of 71st Street and Jeffery Boulevard, in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood.

You mix guns with racism, and stir in some law and order, and it gets very confusing.

The one thing that's not confusing is that Harith Augustus, a 37-year-old barber, father of a little girl, who lived and worked within a few blocks

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