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Why some violent crimes are up in LA: Combo of COVID and nation’s long history with guns Listen 15 min MORE “A lot of things like car thefts, and people stealing car parts, shootings and murders they’re all definitely up. A lot of it is due to the pandemic and people being home,” says Ethan Ward, reporter at Crosstown LA. Photo by Elliott Cowand Jr/Shutterstock.com.
This year kicked off with an alarming rise in shootings in Los Angeles, according to the LAPD’s public stats. Homicides are up, robberies are down, rapes are down, car thefts are up. And people looking to buy guns broke records after the attack on the Capitol.
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Citing recent mass shootings in Orange, Boulder, Colo., and the Atlanta area, state lawmakers on Tuesday advanced a proposal for a new tax on the sale of guns and ammunition in California to boost funding for violence prevention programs.
The legislation by Assemblyman Marc Levine (D-San Rafael) would place a $25 excise tax on retailers for the sale of each new gun and an as-yet-undetermined levy on ammo sales to raise millions of dollars to fund the efforts.
“Gun violence will not end on its own,” Levine told the Assembly Public Safety Committee during a hearing Tuesday. “We must take responsible action to end the public health crisis that is gun violence in our state, in our nation.”
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