Gunfire is becoming more common in Annapolis, and it’s putting people on edge

Jessica Pachler called me two days after Christmas. There was another pop pop-pop pop outside her home, a sound instantly recognizable as gunfire to anyone living in parts of Annapolis. “My kids were outside playing with their new Nerf guns,” she said. “And they came running in and said, ‘That was not a Nerf gun.’” Police responded three times to Pachler’s street for gunshots in the days after the holiday.