...so, can somebody explain this?

You have a city whose gun laws are so very tough that even museums are banned from displaying matchlocks and other historical pieces...and a murder rate that tops even New York City's.  A city where gun stores are illegal, but teenaged choir boys routinely can ride their bicycles, shooting at pedestrians.*  A city where handguns were illegal until recently, but nineteen people were shot over the course of a single night.

Wait...what? 

Can somebody explain to me how this can possibly happen?  No?  

Then how the fuck can they tell me that gun control works?  The cities with the strictest anti-gun laws have the highest numbers of shootings in the country, because the criminals aren't afraid that their victims will shoot back.

*What I don't understand is how his mother can possibly say that the police shot her angel in cold blood when the little bastard (probably literally) was shooting at the police, first.