England, of course, have also bungled four and are without a shoot-out win at a World Cup, their lone victory coming at Euro 96.
"Not a day would go by without a shooting, or someone dying".
Local police thwarted the plot, although not without a shoot-out with ETA's 'gardeners' that left one officer dead.
Man Up!, a site in East New York, set a record in 2013 when they went 367 days without a shooting in the chunk of the neighborhood they patrolled.
At the SOS Crown Heights office, there's a running tally that ticks off how many days the neighborhood has gone without a shooting.
Recently The Onion wrote a scathing article celebrating a week without a shooting, though just after publishing they had to update with the truthful and painfully telling words "Never mind".
"You can't even go to the goddamn zoo without seeing a shooting out there," he added.
And without one, a shooting becomes less of a sign of the times, or a call to arms — which, some doctors believe, can create a domino effect — than an isolated story, albeit an equally devastating one.
As Hamlet said: "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow," and if you can't suffer the wings of sparrows and outrageous fortune without starting a shoot-out then something has gone very wrong.
In baking hot Dadaab, without a green shoot in sight, and with nothing else to do, the Anuak talked politics all day.
Some months I go without a single shoot, and other times I have as many as nine.
