13 Shot Outside Arizona Nightclub

[PavePusher]

97. My apology, I seem to have extrapolated too far on insufficient data.

Ironically, something I call others for with some frequency. Mea Culpa.

I still don't see any evidence to back up your assertion of "easier". Gangs today rarely kill more than 1 or 2 people at a time. They are (thankfully) generally poorly trained and terrible marksmen, using a spray-n-pray method that makes it difficult to hit the right house, let alone a specific person or group of persons. The distances involved are rarely more than a few feet or yards (according to DoJ/FBI murder stats). I've never known of a dedicated murderer who used a knife who had any particular "personal" feelings about killing someone that way.

The entire point of guns for defensive purposes is that the "skinny little guy" legal Citizen does not have to try to go hand-to-hand with the frequently "big and burly" criminal.

P.S. "Gangs nowadays use guns." Gangs have used guns for quite some time. They may not have been particularly common among some demographics of young urban criminals for a variety of reasons. My primary guess being that those frequently immigrant/first-generation gang members were too poor to buy reliable, quality firearms and cheap, reliable transportation to sources to buy or steal such was not readily available (in the years before widespread drug trafficking and the ubiquitousness of automobile and good rural roads).

I may be completely wrong...