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Because noboy ever reports from war zones, or sniper shoot outs ever. We've never seen bullets being shot on TV before, I guess.

I could be very wrong, but my guess is the hooligans and snipers are more rumor then anything, with some sporadic incidents that the authorities flipped out over - and as a result, they created copycats who wanted in on that action because they're desprate. That reporters & officials weren't able to differentiate between crime and survival makes all claims of unlawful behavior suspect to me.