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America is Back Outside and Shooting: Gun Violence in Summer 2021

As COVID restrictions have eased across the nation, cities are burying citizens on account of a familiar plague.

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Donney Rose
Jun 17, 2021
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The United States is a hyper-violent nation that often struggles to own up to just how pervasive gun violence is in American society. And when I say America struggles to own up to the pervasiveness of gun violence, I mean American leaders at the local, state and federal levels either are reluctant to discuss the systemic di…

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