Yeah, we're bad ass. There's been dozens of gang related executions in Vancouver over the last year with, as of March 9th, 31 shootings and 12 fatalities since January alone.
There was a good one where a really swanky restaurant got shot up with machine guns last year while one or more of the gang bangers was eating with a bunch of his friends.
There was another one in which 6 people were shot up (2 died) in a Chinese food restaurant.
There's some speculation that some of this is tied to what is going on in Mexico right now, as a lot of kids from there and further south (Honduras, etc.) showed up in Vancouver a few years ago to sell crack and heroin. That, and we've had issues with Asian gangs and Hells Angels for a very long time.
I don't mind if they're just killing each other. The problem of course is when they take their battles to the streets, innocent bystanders are often caught up in it.