Original sentence: (For example, they have suggested that the cocaine craze of the 1980s was most responsible for that decade's spike in crime; while credit for the recent decline, in DC and elsewhere, should go not to political decisions but simply to the rising prosperity of the 1990s.Opponents of gun control, however, point to statistics showing that violent crime has increased since the passage of gun control.Some sociologists and economists on the other hand, counter that crime rates frequently seem to be more tied to social and economic factors than to legislation
Edited sentence: After gun control was passed, crime went up.Despite the gun control in Washington D.it still has one of the highest crime rates in the country