Why Has Gun Violence Increased in the United States? | BU Today
Says pandemic’s health, economic stress played a large role Violence could linger beyond COVID without community, government help Mass shootings, like the ones that killed 8 at spas and massage parlors in Atlanta last month and 10 at a supermarket in Boulder, Colo., just days later, make up just a fraction of the nation’s gun deaths. If that’s good news, here’s the bad: as COVID-19 spread across the United States last year, murders spiked 21 percent, a one-year record. Jay developed technology to pinpoint areas at risk for gun violence, down to city blocks. Photo courtesy of Jonathan ...