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As someone yelled, "Shame on you!"

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President Obama won't get his vote on gun control, after all. The bipartisan amendment to expand background checks failed to get the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster, meaning that the larger gun-control bill will likely be pulled from the Senate.

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