Eh, sensational gun violence is not the same thing as statistics. You always hear about police shootings and mass shooters, but they make up a tiny number of the total violence. The gun violence rate is probably going to hold steady this year, and might even drop, given that the economy is doing a good job in recovering from the pandemic disruption.

I think, at this point, with most people pretending like COVID doesn’t exist anymore, we’ll continue to have strong health effects from the pandemic, but probably not much else outside of those direct effects.

You miiiiight be able to make some claim about economic hardship through people who have to support others with long COVID and other COVID related health problems, but I don’t think it’s enough to show up in the gun violence statistics.