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Column: On Gun Control, Courage in Short Supply
By Dana Milbank Washington Post Columnist WASHINGTON — The gun bill was going down, but Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat who reached a compromise to try to save it, went to the Senate floor Wednesday morning to give it one more try. In an unorthodox tactic, he appealed directly to the woman taking…