Originally Posted by
Slaninar
Gang shootouts are places where you're better off running as far away as possible, than interfering and drawing a gun. No gang member will shoot you, a petty bystander, for no reason. Only accidentaly (and guns can't stop other bullets).
And yet the inner cities (where gangs predominate) in the U.S. are routinely subject to bystanders who were accidentally shot. And of course there are those gangs that require their members to commit murders of innocent bystanders for initiation or promotion.
And of course the most relevant are those innocents whose only crime is to try to make their neighborhoods better by identifying the criminals when asked by police...
P.S. In many jurisdictions in the U.S. police are required to be armed, even when off duty...