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Nearly 100,000 people died last year in violence-related deaths. It wasn’t in Gaza or Ukraine. It was here in the United States. Deaths from opioids like fentanyl and murders totaled just under 100,000 — down from the year before. The war is right here in America.

These numbers are families ripped apart; children lost; communities unsafe. And these overall statistics sugarcoat the areas with the highest numbers lost, which are five and 10 times the national average. This is not about politics, but about American lives.

The denial of this reality is one of the great scandals of our time and why so little was done to stop it until now. Every life is precious, and it's big news when a deranged individual shoots up a church, b

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