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What is the xfactor?

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[โ€“] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I hope you can see it's not as simple as a single 'x factor.' There are many things that affect murder rates, and many of them have little to nothing to do with simple population count.

[โ€“] sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz 1 points 16 hours ago

I mean, the guns and permissive attitude towards them the way they are opposite for drugs is a massive xfactor