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Pandemic a “perfect storm” for gun violence, leading expert says. But there is hope. Shani Buggs, an assistant professor at the University of California, Davis, has been studying gun violence prevention as a public health issue since 2012, when it “was still very much still a fringe idea,” she says in a must-read interview with Greg Berman of the Henry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. Buggs said spikes in gun violence during the pandemic were especially pronounced in places that had previously seen elevated rates of violence and the negative social factors that tend to accompany it:…