Accepting Defeat - A New Feature Story

In Alameda County, one of the biggest contributing factors to its high homicide count is the spread of guns. In Oakland, where the majority of Alameda County's homicides occur, 91 percent of the homicides last year involved guns.

My feature story "Accepting Defeat" follows the history of gun legislation in California and Alameda County from 1968 until the present, where it has come up against a brick wall. I also spoke with students involved in Youth Alive, all of whom are residents of neighborhoods in Oakland with the highest homicide rates. None of them are older than 17, and all of them said that they had easy access to guns.

The story is posted in the Features section; please watch and comment.

-- Kevin Jones, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism