Well St. Paul & Twin-Cities, I can see the reasoning behind the "simple answer"

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Kind of like if there's more cars on the roads, there tends to be more accidents reasoning  :

Why so many shootouts? Pretty simple answer, experts say.



Oct. 17—Innocent bystanders are getting shot in troubling numbers in the Twin Cities.

In the past three years, shootouts in crowded gatherings — often bustling public businesses like bars — have injured more than 60 people in the metro, and the vast majority of them appear to be unconnected to the gunmen, according to a Pioneer Press compilation of shootings.

These bystanders are caught in a crossfire or hit by stray bullets in a specific sub-category of mass shootings: The victims aren't targeted by a shooter intent on causing mass casualties; they're collateral damage in personal disputes that erupt in gunfire in crowded places.

The phenomenon was tragically underscored a week ago, when Marquisha D. Wiley, 27, was killed during a shootout inside the crowded Seventh Street Truck Park bar in St. Paul. The early Sunday, Oct. 10, shooting also left 15 injured. Those included the men allegedly involved in a private dispute — one accused the other of abusing a female relative — but also numerous people who had nothing to do with it, leaving scars both physical and psychological for those there, and eroding a sense of safety for a metro area already on edge amid a crime wave and more than a year of jitters arising from the killing of George Floyd.

Why is this happening?

Experts say the answer is simple, and historians who study crime say we've likely been here before.

MORE PEOPLE CARRYING GUNS

"The real bottom line, which isn't rocket science, is that too many people are too quick to pick up guns to solve their disputes," said professor James Densley, who chairs the School of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice at Metropolitan State University.