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On the recordMarch 20, 2022
I want to say for the record because this often doesn't get said, Chris Murphy's book put this data point in there that there is as much gun violence in inner-city communities as there are in other low-income communities that might be rural and might not have the same ethnic diversity.
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

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Booker emphasizes that gun violence affects both urban and rural low-income communities equally.

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