HK is land of the free February 24, 2005 Two shooting incidents within a month have Asia's world city in an uproar. Gun violence rarely occurs here. New York, America's world city, had 3,286 major felonies last year just in its subway system. In the United States easy availability of guns encourages crime and makes murder an almost expected accompaniment of mugging or rape. No American, taking armed robbers for granted, would have resisted handing over his watch as did the businessman Sunday. In America innocent children and adults get killed or wounded by stray bullets in every major city...