At least 10 dead and 30 to 40 wounded

[gejohnston]

99. the gangs are not buying their guns from the store

anymore than UK and European gangs are buying their sub machine guns from the local gun room. Althoug their gun crimes are fewer, they do have more machine gun crimes. Mexico and Jamacia have very strict gun laws and their murder rates are what they are. Criminal gangs always get their guns. Not to get Godwin, resistance movements in France, Denmark, and Poland made their own STEN SMGs in bicycle shops. A few years ago, Austrailian police busted an underground gun factory making Owen SMGs.

Local jurisdictions that have the highest murder rates, including USVI also have strict gun laws. Yet, places like Vermont are as safe as Japan and safer than the UK.
But gangs had easier access to guns back in the day, but didn't use them as much.

Most US murders are people with criminal records killing other people with criminal records. The are mass murder, and they are rare, aside. Interesting thing about scientific studies on this issue, the ones funded by the Joyce Foundation and MAIG say gun laws will cause it to go down. John Lott at the CATO has an equally valid study saying the opposite. Yet studies done by social scientists with no bias or interest conflice either way say both are wrong. There is no evidence gun laws will affect violent crime one way or the other.

End easy access to guns after ending drug prohibition and the gangs that make their money off of illegal drugs and you'll drastically curtail the massacres that are becoming far too common because of the easy access to guns based on the tyrannical influence of the NRA, gun lobby and gun nuts.

Using drugs as an excuse for easy access to guns is putting the cart before the horse once again.

huh? No it is not putting the cart before the horse. It is how the real world works.