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epa09086738 A pile of returned handguns sits in a garbage container during an anonymous gun buyback operation organized by the Office of Gang Reduction and Youth Development with the support of LAPD in Los Angeles, California, USA, 20 March 2021. Shootings have already increased in Los Angeles in 2021 in comparison to the year before. In the first two months of this year, Los Angeles Police Department officers filled 570 reports of shots fired, up 88% from the 303 incidents during same time frame in 2020 and 267 people were hit by gunfire, a 141% increase from the 111 people wounded in the time frame in 2020. (KEYSTONE/EPA/ETIENNE LAURENT)