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America’s surge in violent crime
11 minutes Posted Apr 13, 2022 at 9:30 am.
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A gunman opened fire in a busy Brooklyn subway Tuesday morning, a mass shooting that created even more anxiety in a city already worried about a rise in crime. It’s not just in New York. According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been 131 mass shootings this year.

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