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Bob Barr (1948-2003) was a former United States congressman, a member of the Long-Term Strategy Project for Preserving Security and Democratic Norms in the War on Terrorism at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, a board member of the National Rifle Association, and the author of The Meaning of Is.
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