I don't need a Dictionary.com definition.Asylum isnt protection from crime/gang violence.
For clarity, let me define the term as I understand it and am using it.
a·sy·lum
/əˈsīləm/
noun
- the protection granted by a nation to someone who has left their native country as a political refugee.
"she applied for asylum and was granted refugee status"
Asylum is for those of protected classes, the United States chooses what the protected classes are and acts accordingly. Mass gang violence, which does target both people of specific areas, professions, and lineages, could very easily be couched into one of the protected classes or made into a protected class, the United States has chosen not to do so.