In the more than two years since gun violence
suddenly began to rise in cities all across the country, researchers have
been asked repeatedly to
explain what caused the rapid increase and what can be done to reverse it. The
urgency behind the question is warranted: Gun homicides rose by
34 percent from 2019 to 2020, and then rose again in 2021. In Chicago alone,
over 250 more people were murdered in 2020 than in 2019, and that heightened
level of violence continued into 2021. Murders are down slightly this year in
Chicago and many other cities, but young lives continue to be lost to gun
violence at a much higher rate than just a few years ago, writes Patrick Sharkey in The Atlantic.
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