DIRECTOR‘S NOTE:

Die Menschen, die wir auf dieser dreiwöchigen Reise durch die USA trafen, haben uns vor allem mit ihren Aussagen berührt. So zum Beispiel eine Demonstrantin auf einer „Anti-Gun-Rally“ in Chicago:

Is a gun worth more than somebody's life? I really don't think so. I actually work with a lot of children on a day-to-day basis, and I asked a young eight-year-old boy what he did this past weekend. His response was: I tried not to get shot.

Die Sozialarbeiterin Dr. Elanore Quitanne sprach mit uns über die Todessehnsucht vieler Gangmitglieder:

And in fact, if you talk to some of the guys, especially really high-risk guys that are really into the shooting and gangs and that sort of thing, they don't plan to live. And in fact it's because for a lot of them they figure it would be easier to die than to plan to live, because their options are so few. And I've seen a couple of them actually get almost like addicted to shooting and it's sickening and it's scary and it's dehumanizing. 

Der Gangsta-Rapper und das ehemalige Gangmitglied SPIDER LOC, in LA, sprach sehr offen über die Rolle der Gewalt in seinem Leben:

1. - That was my question: How many of your friends are dead?
   

1. - Ah, man... I couldn't even like give you an exact number, it would take me minutes to try to remember everyone, but I would say personal friends, people that at one point of my life were at least, say… I'm trying to say all the people I know there today. But personal friends I say I loved has got to be up into the... somewhere around thirty.
   

1. - Lots of funerals.
   

1. - I stopped going. I don't even attend funerals anymore. I feel like they are a waste of time. And I don't even see the point in it. The nigga that you say that you're gonna miss, he don't even know if you're there or not. So what the fuck am I there for? For who? Who am I here trying to impress or trying to... fuck all that.
   

Chicago, Westside. Zwei ex-Häftlinge vor dem Büro der Organisation CeaseFire. Die beiden Männer sollen im Auftrag zwischen Gangs in der Gegend vermittelt.