I'm not tryin to generalize here, but there's something that a lot of people overlook. You can say that extacy is a "hug drug, love drug, etc." but for a lot of kids that are born in ghettos across America, they have parents that have drugs in their system. I'm not just talkin bout crack babies, but a majority of the generation that's out on the streets righrt now comes from this era. They've just grown up and now with all this bullshit that gets put into extacy, they don't realize that they're triggering shit that they might not know that's been in their body from birth by popping a pill. it's a chemical reaction and it fucks up your judegment. You might have the intention of robbing someone at gunpoint, with no plan to pull the trigger...but you put them chemicals in your system and you have no control and now you're facing a life sentence.
I'm not saying that this is the sole reason, but it is one of MANY reasons people are gunned down in our streets every day.