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or this issue, Senior Staff Writer Gus Bova traveled to Uvalde, where four months ago a gunman broke into Robb Elementary School and murdered 21 people with an AR-15. The school shooting—the deadliest in Texas history—has reignited the sleepy town of 15,000 a

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