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Originally Posted by Harry Lime
Isn't it a good thing if there are substantial reduction of firearms in 10 or 20 years?.
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Of course it would be a good thing. But reducing violent crime now - this year - has become a major political issue with the crime wave Americans are experiencing.
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Fueled by gun violence, cities across the US are breaking all-time homicide records this year
… The rise in violent crime is an epidemic that is happening “all across the country,” said Thomas Abt, a senior fellow at the Council on Criminal Justice, and a result of three major factors: the impact of Covid-19 on communities and first responders, the fallout of the social unrest after the murder of George Floyd, and the surge in gun sales since the start of the pandemic.
At least nine major cities have broken their previous annual homicide records with about three weeks left to go in 2021. There have been 513 homicides this year in Philadelphia, higher than the previous total of 503 in 1990. There have been 230 homicides in Indianapolis, breaking the previous record of 215 set just last year...
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/12/us/ho...021/index.html
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