It was useless to prolong the discussion: everybody knew the melancholy fate of the few gentlemen who had risked their clean linen in municipal or state politics in new York.

再讨论下去是白费时间：人人都了解那几位拿自己的家庭清白到纽约市或纽约州政界冒险的绅士的伤心命运。

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While not impossible, fresh firearms legislation is far from certain, says Robert Spitzer, a professor at the State University of New York and author of The Politics of Gun Control.

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