Assisted Homicide In Oakland
December, 2007
PEOPLE IN POOR URBAN NEIGHBORHOODS ARE FED UP WITH THE WILD-WEST SHOW THAT TAKES PLACE ON THEIR STREETSSome gallows humor making the rounds in Oakland contends that one way to reduce the city's murder rate would be to offer free shooting instruction. Maybe the instructor would be a suburban high-school sharpshooter, one of those white kids who can hit a target at 1,000 feet. That way, innocent bystanders—some of whom have been the brightest of Oakland's young people—would be spared.Certainly th...
