CDC data has shown a spike in gun violence since the pandemic, with gun-related homicides increasing across the country in large and small metro areas and in rural areas. FOX13
— along with a smattering of incidents of gun violence in cities across the U.S. that don’t always make national news but leave local communities on edge.
For example, he said, when people who can afford to leave cities where gun violence is a big problem move out in droves, it hurts everyone still there. "We understand these numbers make media headlines, but to us they represent people," White told reporters. "These represent families. This represents children. This represents husbands, wives, brothers and sisters. Our Detroit families are in pain. Neighbors near the gunfire are shaken and lives have been forever changed."
Brittany Samuels, a 31-year-old in Detroit, says she still carries physical scars from being shot at age 14 by her uncle, who she said was bipolar and schizophrenic, and fatally shot her grandmother, one of his coworkers and himself.
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