»In which alcohol leads to killing people

Someone was shot in the head legs (nine times, according to this witness) at the intersection of Webster and Haight, just across from Rotee, a few days ago. A woman on the 71 pointed out the spot as we passed it, saying that it's a tough place to live; she got off at the next stop.
Our supervisor, Ross Mirkarimi, thinks that curbing alcohol sales in the neighbourhood will produce a corresponding drop in the amount of gun violence.
How about curbing the amount of drug sales? The blocks immediately around Webster have dealers lazing on stoops, double-parked at the meters along Haight St., running after each other with guns drawn.
Although alcohol and liquor stores may haves some correlation with people capping each other, it seems more likely that illicit activity, literally illicit activity like drugs that involve an element of paranoia and require special protective measure, is really what prompts the sort of killings we have suffered these past few weeks.
This is the same Mirkarimi who has acted reluctantly and slowly with respect to controlling the several medical marijuana dispensaries. The Lower Haight can be sketchy.

UPDATE: Greg corrected some details on the Tuesday shooting.