Gangsta shooting trend significantly reduces inner city gunshot fatalities

Los Angeles, Calif. – According to an article published in the October issue of Handguns magazine, a recent decline in fatalities resulting from inner city handgun shootings can be credited to the thriving popularity of a flashly new gangsta-style shooting technique wherein the weapon is canted 180 degrees from its standard upright position.

“Hollywood overkill of the sideways gangsta method encouraged many modern hoods to look for a more flashy but equally cool-looking technique for offin’ someone,” wrote freelancer Marian Ayoood in Handguns’ October cover story entitled “Better To Look Good Than To Shoot Good.” “During the last three months, holding a firearm completely upside down has become the predominant method used by stylish gangstas whom, as they say, ‘be fixin,’ to bust a cap in [a person’s] dome.”

The article went on to reiterate statistics from the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), which documented September of this year to have tallied the lowest record of shootings fatalities for men between the ages of 13-74 since 1990.

“The number of gang-related altercations involving gunplay has remained steady, but the rate of fatalities resulting from these shootings dropped fourteen percent last month,” wrote Ayoob. “These statistics clearly indicate that the bullets – of which there are a approximately the same number being fired – are not hitting their intended targets – for what seems like the obvious reasons.”

Ayoob also cited studies by ballistic experts at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, which estimate that employing the unorthodox handgun shooting technique cab reduce a subject’s short range accuracy by as 80 percent.

U of M researchers said that this significant decrease in accuracy results from attempting to shoot the firearm while it is upside down.

“A gangsta utilizing the sideways, ninety-degree shooting method generally experiences only an accuracy loss of roughly twenty percent,” said Dr. Keith Marcus of the University of Michigan. “But the shooter loses tremendous accuracy when the gun in turned an additional ninety degrees. With the sideways method you could still use the sights to aim. Upside down, you have to pretty much just guesstimate [when aiming]. And having to use your pinky to operate the trigger certainly doesn’t help.”

Marcus added that a shooter’s accuracy is further reduced if the subject is either running form police or trying to look at himself in a mirror while aiming.

Still, Ayoob contends, more and more gangstas are becoming willing to sacrifice accuracy in return for aesthetic rewards.

“What the shooter loses in short- and long-range accuracy, and the ability to quickly fire consecutive rounds, he or she more than makes up for in presenting himself with a more ‘bad ass’ appearance [than using a standard shooting technique,” wrote Ayoob. “Polls indicate that thugs consider ‘how you be representin’ be just as important as how you be shootin’.”

Ayoob said that Americans can expect the number of shooting fatalities to continue to drop as the flamboyant attack pose gains further popularity among the public.

“Right now, only gangstas residing in the bigger, more progressive cities are employing the ‘one-eighty cock,’ as some are calling it,” said Ayoob. “As soon as the entertainment media gets wind that holding the gun upside down is the ‘whaz-up cuz’ cool way to fire off a cap, you’ll be seeing it in all of the movies and television shows.”

Added Ayoob: “Just wait until the next 50 Cent [movie] character blasts a cop using that one-eighty cock. Everyone will start shooting that way. Morgues across the country will probably start going out of business.”