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In national gun control debate, no discussion of ‘stand your ground’

Before the mass shootings in a Connecticut elementary school, a Colorado movie theater, and a Wisconsin Sikh temple, a shot from Sanford, Fla., was heard around the world.

One year ago, a neighborhood watch volunteer took the life of an unarmed teenager, inciting international outrage and causing President Barack Obama to reflect on how the teen could have been his own.

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