Since oakland has a rep for its homicides. I doing agree with them all. You have str8 up killing then you have  justifiable homicide which is rare in oakland.  This killing was senseless but why did it happen and why was the 1st brother killed?  From 1993 to 2000 i worked ina  Funeral Home in Richmond  and i have seen tis happen so many times brothers killed weeks days or months apart. But its something  more to it then what they are saying. They say the truth comes out. But 1990 a  the 1st one gets killed not  this one. there must be something going on that the family dont no about.  I do give priase to the  homie for his work in oakland against the  mess going on here. I give him praise for stepping out and speaking up. But dayam someone in that house  new something.  You just dont  up and go up in a house and kill some one.  Someone in that house had to let the killer know he was there. funny how you can send a text out and  moments later you get killed.  or the famous "set up" dayam shame how  we are killing each other over  str8 up bull[bleep]. But now that the bet is set oakland will reach 150 this year last year  126  the year before 148. Like i said in  other post FUNERAL HOMES ARE MAKING A KILLING OFF THIS MESS.   Id love to go broke if we stop killing our selves. Now the gamble is on what funeral home will get this young man. Its a dayam shame why we kill and what we do it for. You have down right homicide and then you have justifiable homicide and  that you dont see much of in oakland.  BRUTHAZ GOTTA STOP THE KILLING. YOUNG HOMIE  REST IN PEACE.!

I'm sorry to hear of anyone murdered, but this family doesn't seem to take responsibility for anything that happens in their lives or their community.  I've read stories of people murdered in Oakland for the most trivial reasons, e.g.,  a lost pair of tweezers, beer accidently spilled on someone's shoes, someone taking the last beer from the refrigerator costing two women their lives, and in this article it's mentioned that a squirt from a watergun ended in murder.  This must be the definition of insanity. I'm no fan of the NRA, but people who resort to insane violence with little or no provocation will find a way to get guns or commit murder in some fashion no matter what laws are passed.  The guns they own now are not registered, and many of them were stolen.  Personal responsibility, proper parenting, and a working set of morals and ethics are a few of the things that seem to be missing in some Oakland residents, and the rest of us are made to suffer for it. Please don't offer me "poverty" as an excuse.  Poverty is relative, and Oakland is truly a paradise compared to many parts of the world (or the U.S., for that matter), though many poorer areas have less crime and higher moral standards.  There is a poverty of the spirit here, and until it is addressed no law can protect us from endemic violence.

Let me first offer my condolences to the Hall family.  When situations like this happen people always talk about responsibility and don’t get me wrong I’m all for responsibility, but I am for responsibility and holding those accountable at every facet of the problem from the gun manufactures, police, gun shop owners, private gun owners, and lastly the individuals who are actually committing the crimes because like Mona Hall implied, the mother of Bobby Hall Oakland’s 73 homicide victim, we are all responsible. The problem with responsibility is that people use it like a weapon as a way to justify society’s apathy towards the communities most affected. People talk about responsibility but the truth is these kids out here in these ghettos aren’t going on the internet and ordering “gun building kits” from Germany; they aren’t in their parent’s basement welding steel in order to build their own guns, no, they’re getting these guns from manufactures, Shops, and gun shows, and we know this because honestly when’s the last time your herd of a major gun heist, you haven’t, these guns aren’t being stolen.  When a police officer is caught selling guns or drugs both while on or off duty they usually spend the bare minimum jail term in exchange for their alleged cooperation in bringing down other bad cops, when a gun shop owner is found to have sold guns to felons or not following the proper procedures in general they’ re fined just a nominal amount of money, and let’s not get started on the gun manufacturers  who have an obligation to ensure that their product makes it to its official and legal destinations have all but been immunized from responsibility when their products do in fact make it into the wrongs hands sometimes through their own negligence, tell me where is the responsibility. Don’t get me wrong I’m not excusing what the criminal element is doing, but when we talk about responsibility to second what was already mentioned by fellow commentator “avb2000” we as a society have to hold everyone involved accountable from the top down. Lastly I would like to give the Oakland Tribune credit for running this story and putting it on the front page, no less. The front page is valuable real-estate for news papers and it puts the story right in your face, I think the Tribune also deserves credit for displaying a picture because it made the victim seem more real and not just another name floating around in the ether. When I got the paper at 5 am and saw this story it made me uncomfortable, coming off of a fantastic weekend at the U.S youth games which were hosted by Oakland this year, to come home and find out that this young seemingly innocent man had been murdered took some of my joy away, and that’s exactly what a story like this should do to a decent person. There shouldn’t be a lot of joy as long as kids ( or young adults) continue to get murdered in our front and backyards and as far as I am concerned the Tribune should run a story like this picture and all for all future murder victims