Massive crime spike stems from social unrest, COVID lockdowns destabilizing communities: expert
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Massive social upheaval spurred by the pandemic is in large part to blame for the national surge in violent crime — not guns, expert says.
From the early 1990s through 2019, there was a national decline in violent crime, but the pendulum swung back in 2020, she said. "There are more privately owned guns than people in this country. You have to take that into account when you talk about combating gun violence." "By design, the people who are most affected by violent crime are having their constitutional rights violated the most."
"We’ve seen across the nation unprecedented spikes in homicide rates and other types of violent crime," she said.
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