This sounds great until you’re minding your own business in your house while these people engage in gun battles out in the street and you or your kids catch one of the strays.

If you google this you will find plenty of examples that made the news, and not all of them do.

https://abc13.com/post/houston-police-increasing-patrols-7-y...

Here is an article including two such examples. One kid was sitting down eating dinner and the other was sitting in a car. They were both shot totally incidentally during shootouts they had nothing to do with.