Depression and fear of stigmatization have marked nearly half the life of Ralph Norman, a 30-year-old young black man, who 13 years ago was rendered paraplegic by a stray bullet, when he was refueling his car at a gas station after celebrating his graduation with friends. He cannot move his limbs and requires constant medical care and attention. "You know, you're just mad at the world, you're mad at the person who did it to you," says Norman who suffered depression. Similarly, Oronde McClain was only 10 when he was shot in the back of his head while trying to take shelter from a shooting in Philadelphia after which he was pronounced dead for 2 minutes and 17 seconds. "Violence is really concentrated in communities that we as a larger society have put at risk by depriving them of opportunities and by allowing firearms to be readily available," says traumatologist Dr Elinore Kaufman. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES