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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Saying "It's poverty!" or "it's guns!" is incorrect and overly simplistic. Both high poverty rates and high gun ownership exist in other parts of the country without the rates of violence we see in many cities like ours: "Economic factors in general seem to have little impact on violent crime. Murder rates declined during the previous economic crash in 2007-08, then began an upward trend in 2014 even as poverty and unemployment hit record lows. Over the past six decades, annual changes in U.S. murder and poverty rates have moved in opposite directions more often than they have moved in sync. There are vast areas of immigrant poverty in the U.S. with low murder rates, and in parts of Appalachia, poverty combines with widespread gun ownership, yet gun violence remains rare." https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-murder-spike-of-2020-when-police-pull-back-11626969547 [/quote] Where murder is low, suicide is high. [/quote]
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