What's with all those guns?

Notice a trend in the local news? A policeman shot himself in the head with his service pistol, a 59 year old Ah-Peh is most probably going to hang for armed robbery, a KTV boss shot dead in his flat by "one-eyed gunman".

Fuck, this is getting out of hand people! I mean, what happened to the age old tradition of fighting with bamboo poles, iron pipes, parangs, roti knives, choppers, beer bottles, mugs, chairs, helmets and umbrellas? Have we become a trigger-happy society? Did the COE for firearms suddenly drop?

What have we become? Just look what we have done? (Eh? White Lion lyrics?) So many questions, so little answers...

p.s. : Anyone know how i can get my hands on one of those bullet proof vest thingys?