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Candidates face the loaded question of gun control
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- Mar 31, 2018
- Mar 31, 2018
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GREENSBORO — The gun- control debate is burning fiercely in the aftermath of the school slayings in Parkland, Fla., but it’s not clear the protest movement spawned by that massacre has the staying power to significantly affect outcomes of North Carolina political races later this year.
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