+100000000000000... me too

It´s a sad picture you are painting alameda, but unfortunately true. I suppose it´s hard for someone who´s not used to a milieau with firearms to understand why the authorities don´t have more operations to prevent guns from being sold on the black market.

From the outside it looks like they are closing their eyes to how bad things have gotten.

Sorry to hear the sad story of your friend Alameda. I wish her patience and I hope she will recover from that nasty wound soon.

In the end, it all boils down to the fact that we need to share this world with people having aggressive tendencies and an inclination for crime.

There is not an easy answer to whether to allow people to own fire arms because this whole matter is not something that is governed by commonsense. Commonsense says governments must not use mass destruction weapons but there are countries that own them and there are government that actually used them on innocent civilians killing tens of thousands of girls, boys, men, women, and babies ruthlessly and then there are millions of people who shot films to display how proud they are because of the victory that came through these barbaric acts. 

Ours is a vulture culture.