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‘Everybody in this community has a gun’: How Oakland lost its grip on violence epidemic

THE RED-TIPPED BULLLET pierces skin and melts into it, Javier Velasquez Lopez explains. The green-tipped bullet penetrates armored vests. And the hollow-tipped bullet expands as it tears through bodies. At 19, Velasquez Lopez knows a lot about ammunition because many of his friends own guns, he said. They carry to defend themselves in East Oakland, […]

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