Data journalism

FILE - In this Sunday, March 15, 2020, file photo, people wait in line People wait to enter a gun store in Culver City, Calif., March 15, 2020. FBI data released to the AP reveals that background checks blocked nearly twice as many gun sales in 2020 as in the year before, largely tracking with the record-setting surge in sales that took hold along with the coronavirus pandemic and has continued into this year. Nearly half the denied sales were for people with felony convictions.After a year of pandemic lockdowns, mass shootings are back, but the guns never went away. As the U.S. inches toward a post-pandemic future, guns are arguably more present in the American psyche and more deeply embedded in American discourse than ever before. The past year's anxiety and loss fueled a rise in gun ownership across political and socio-economic lines. (AP Photo / Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)

Jerry Ramos is remembered with a collection displayed at his home in Watsonville, Calif., June 6, 2021. A father and essential worker, Ramos died Feb. 15 at age 32, becoming one of more than 600,000 Americans who have perished in the pandemic — and an example of COVID-19’s strikingly uneven and ever-shifting toll on the nation’s racial and ethnic groups. Latinos between 30 and 39 have died at five times the rate of white people in the same age group.(AP Photo / Nic Coury)