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And the answer, at least according to the researchers that NPR reporter Martin Kaste spoke to, appears to be “probably not, maybe a little, but we really don’t know.”
Gun control activists, on the other hand, are certainly making the argument that the primary driver for the rise in shootings and homicides in most cities last year was the result of record-high gun sales; and their solution, of course, is putting more gun control laws on the books. As Kaste learned, however, it’s far more complicated than that.
“It’s a real challenge to try and disentangle the role of any one single potential cause,” says Julia Schleimer, with the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis. “It’s particularly challenging during the pandemic,” with variables such as mass unemployment and closed schools.
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