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A year after the Parkland massacre, two fathers are divided on guns but united by pain

BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. - Andrew Pollack had just settled into a folding chair in a palm-shaded campground when gunfire rang out from a nearby target range. He did not flinch.

It had been nearly a year since his 18-year-old daughter, Meadow, was shot to death with 16 other people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.

"I don't think about guns too much," said Pollack, whose daughter was hit by nine bullets. "It's too easy to say it's the gun. If it was the gun, I'd say it was the gun. But when you dig into it ... there were so many failures."

Fred Guttenberg also lost a daughter in the massacre - 14-year-old Jaime, who was shot in the back as she raced toward a stairwell entrance on the third floor. He has made it his mission to destroy the National Rifle Association and push for gun reform.

"The problem is you can go to any school in the U.S.A. today and a killer can get through if they really want, or they can wait outside," he said. "If

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