UVALDE, Texas — (UVALDE, Texas) -- Nearly six months after a gunman armed with an AR-15 killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, the community remains divided on the topic of gun control.
Many of Uvalde's families have grown up hunting, so guns have been built into the county's culture and economic lifeblood for generations.
Some residents, however, contend the shooting may prompt gun control actions that they say go too far. Rizo and other gun control advocates contend that the solutions they're pushing for won't be a burden for those businesses and will save lives. Molitor said he held his first firearm when he was 5 and shot his first deer three years later. The rancher said he uses his AR-15s to hunt hogs, contending that the assault rifle is the best way to shoot the passel.
He said such a move could affect his business and other hunting ranches in the area, which he estimated drives $10 million to $12 million into the Uvalde economy. Rizo said arguments about taking a person's gun away are scare tactics spread by the opponents of control policies.
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