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Dahleen Glanton: A legal gun owner shot and killed a 14-year-old boy. Police should take a closer look at what he's done

CHICAGO - Most people who have a license to own a gun will never know what it is like to shoot and kill another human being. That's exactly how it should be.

But increasingly, since Illinois became the last state to pass a concealed carry law in 2013, people are killing other people with legal guns. And no one, it seems, is all that interested in determining whether the shootings are justified.

When a legal gun owner kills someone, people tend to be willing to give that person the benefit of the doubt. They assume that because the gun owner was able to pass rigorous requirements to

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