I grew up in south-central Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s and I witnessed several incidents of gun violence, one of which was fatal, and I was personally fired at on two different occasions. These were all gang related, random acts of violence, though neither myself nor anybody I happened to be near at the time was in a gang.

> What are you doing to provoke this kind of behavior?

Standing on the sidewalk, hanging out with friends.

> Why haven’t you moved away to somewhere safer?

I left when I was 18.

I'd be happy to entertain any additional questions you or others might have.