Why experts say gun violence rose in 2020, amid pandemic lockdowns

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Even as cities locked down, people retreated into their homes and life was seemingly put on pause last year, 2020 still marked the deadliest year for gun violence in at least two decades, according to data from the CDC.

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Kravitz-Wirtz told ABC News that the violence was concentrated"in neighborhoods that have experienced systemic racism and disinvestment." Officers couldn't be"as effective in stopping crime," because they were responding to protests around the country in 2020 decrying racism and police brutality in the wake of George Floyd's death by Minneapolis police, Donohue said.

One in 10 residents surveyed also expressed fear that someone they knew may intentionally harm someone or themselves due to pandemic losses including losing a loved one, job or housing.Mario Tama/Getty Images, FILE Schleimer, who studied firearm purchases and firearm violence in 2020, said it's possible that increased firearm access and continuing stressors could"result in an increased risk of firearm violence moving forward."Donohue, though, forecasts some of the violence could taper off with the end of the pandemic.

 

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Biss-millah ... ! You run round the world,massacre children and killing non-combantant people,cause combantants do know very well to hide himself,killing round the world and wondering why all this violence in your own country ! Every acting you make,you pay ! its a rule !

Oh stop pushing the gun agenda 2020 was the deadliest bc of COVID period. Stop trying to regulate guns.

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No kidding the Soro’s furies riots and the lockdowns caused the increased that is a fact . Sit people at home bored no work with plenty of alcohol and drugs what did they think would happen.

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