Mike Pence Pushes Guns as Indiana Bleeds

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One question Trump’s veep should get at tonight’s debate: Why has he made buying guns in his state easier when Indianapolis’s murder rate tops Chicago’s?

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Published Oct. 4 2016 1:15AM EDT

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Donald Trump made much of the violence in President Obama’s hometown during the first 2016 presidential debate with Hillary Clinton.

Clinton might have noted in reply that Chicago’s murder rate last year was topped by the murder rate in Indianapolis, where Trump’s running mate, Mike Pence, resides as the governor of...

Michael Daly

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Mike Pence Pushes Guns as Indiana Bleeds

One question Trump’s veep should get at tonight’s debate: Why has he made buying guns in his state easier when Indianapolis’s murder rate tops Chicago’s?

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