It sounds counter-intuitive, but . . . I actually wish gangbangers would learn to shoot competently. It would reduce civilian casualties, and I couldn’t give a fig what happens to the gangbangers. If they become more competent at killing each other, ‘splain to me, Lucy, why that is a “bad thing”. Hell, I’ll chip in to buy them range time and better guns and ammunition. As the movie line goes, “Let them fight.” – so long as they kill each other, and not random neighbors.

Geoff,

Indeed!! All graduates from the Urban School for Sociopathology.

The pic at the top tells the story of what really happened, notice the ‘colors’ the two are wearing, red and blue.

Most likely just a simple ‘business dispute’ between two competitors, the ‘Bloods’ and the ‘Crips’, with the cheering parade crowd being used as a bullet backstop… 🙁

Alien,

And (although this is certainly only coincidental…cough, cough) that Center for Gun Violence Solutions resides within the Bloomberg School for Public Health.

Otherwise known as the Center for the Propagation of Propaganda.

“Since 2007, the state has permitted residents to obtain firearms without a permit, which led to between a 25% and 47% rise in homicides and a 23.5% increase in suicides by firearm, according to the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions.”

I’ll bet that we can guess as to the methodology of the study that arrived at that conclusion.