Gangs and Violence

Gangs and Violence

GANGS AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE Georgette Corbin Crt 205 2/15/09 The First topic that I have chosen is on Gang violence. The reason why I chose this is because there are so many young kids and adults who are in a gang and I wanted to know more about it because it is very interesting to me. With the first source that I found was by a teacher who seen it on a day to day based and he said that it a very hard life because people are getting beat up in school and they are even sealing the drugs on school property. There other thing that people need to do is to stand up against their Lawless behavior and try and help them. Also in the school system where he works the parents must pay for the consequence of their child action and in my opinion is that the parents should be responsible. In my eyes I think that is a good thing because parents should pay for it because they didn’t ask question on what their child was doing. Another thing that this article talks about is too much tolerance. In this section of the article he is talking about the parents of gang members are all too often tolerant and they provide shelter and stuff for them and their gang friends and don’t even realize that is what is happening until sometimes it is too late to save them. Another thing that he has said is that they will even shoot at school just to get there point across. The other source that I used talked about in big towns that are all you hear is about gang violence and stuff that are going on. There are drives by shootings, and another thing is drug bust because of it or something. This day and age I am scared to death for my three year old little boy to go to school because of all the violence and drug use that are in the school system. Even to get in to a gang you have to either fight or kill someone to get in it the gang. I have example “My Best friend was shoot and killed in his house asleep because someone thought that he was the one they turned them in about the drugs and he wasn’t...

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