Bob/PKB
Gangs have been a big problem in my area for over 20 years. When my now 25 year old son came home from school on the bus back in second grade, he asked me what "this" meant and drew a gang symbol. He'd seen a kid draw it in the condensation on the window. The kids on the bus were ALL under the age of 12. I'll post my own ingenuous resolution to the problem, but maybe some of you have less facetious suggestions. Thanks.
16 Answers
eggplant
Best answer!
Take them all to the middle of the desert, give them all guns and let them kill each other...Give them only a little water and food.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 17 | |
daren1
jhharlan
I don't know. I had never heard of "gang" until I was nearly 30. I would think "they'd" outgrow it but some are in for life! I don't know. Just raise your kids better than that. Easier said then done......
| 12 years ago. Rating: 15 | |
Bob/PKB
My answer is similar to eggplant's, but is revenue-generating. I would "invite" them to a gang showdown at a football or baseball stadium. Sell tickets and have a full refreshment detail. No one HAS to show, but you will get some audience. Provide for the safety of the audience (and no one in a gang can be audience; only participant). At the signal to start, the gangs start gunning, knifing, driving by and otherwise annihilating each other. Let this continue until the last gang (what is left of it) is standing.
Bury the losers; arrest the "winners". This may need to be done on a regular basis, but I actually think it could be pulled off; ego blinds, especially misplaced.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 13 | |
I have trouble with stuff like that. The Hunger Games was a well-done movie, but the violence and premise of the "game" disturbed me greatly.
Ann
There is no anwer to your Question. The root-cause is poverty, absentee fathers and drugs. We can all sit back and watch them kill each other, but unfortunately they kill many innocent people too, In my opinion, drugs are the biggest problem. .
| 12 years ago. Rating: 12 | |
ed shank
1. Reintroduce the draft. Failure to sign up puts you in prison for five years.
2. Americans are armed, kill every one of them. For every five killed, you get two points removed from your drivers license.
Unfortunately there is no legitimate answer. When the good people stand together in masses and confront them and hang several of them. They might get the message. They understand only one thing and that is VIOLENCE.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 12 | |
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Vinny
angs have always been around however, today's gangs go way beyond the old 'rumble' of yesterday when they were only street fighting. Here in CA we have a terrible gang problem and being arrested and going to jail is cool to them, they will commit crimes just to go to jail. So.. My first line of defense is not making prison life 'The Life of Reilly' . Because we have so many 'do-gooders' with guilt complexes we can not punish those that need punishing, instead, we give them a nice room, 3 meals, full medical, entertainment and a chance to mingle with friends.. This must stop, there needs to be fear of prison life. Secondly, here in the USA, many gangs are comprised of illegals and they must be illegal to join, I see this as an easy crackdown but nothing is done about it. The problem is not the gangs as much as the system controlling the gangs. We need more whip and less honey. But, this will not happen.. Too bad.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 10 | |
tabber
i have worked with gang kids in a few group homes. The sad thing is many of them are really great kids. As everybody on this site has been saying, they have so many factors against them. I know I am personally sick of gangs, gang writing on trucks and walls. it is disgusting. I think the only solutions, which are unlikely to happen, is to get rid of the violence on tv, movies, songs. Make it be a requirement to master a musical instrument by 9th grade. Make a culture that does not teach them to act violently or foolish. People get rewarded in this culture for acting foolish. We complain when they act on what we are constantly teaching them. I been fighting against violence in music for 25 years, which glorifys and mystifies bad behavior. Which might be ok to listen to if you are over 18. This generation has been listening to it for over 20 years and boy have we created a mess not to mention a lost generation of young people.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 8 | |
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lambshank
As I have mentioned in a comment, a couple of years in the military made mandatory would teach some discipline and respect, jail only takes the violence to another level, let them kill each other, or maybe the return of the death penalty (dare I say it) might be a deterrent or at least rid society of this scum, this can longer be ignored, nor should anyone be expected to tolerate this anti social violent behavior, personally I would have no qualms about injecting these gang members with a lethal dose,(and I'm a welfare worker, a so called "do gooder") get them off our streets and out of society
| 12 years ago. Rating: 7 | |
bulletman
Eggie you are too generous, i would not leave water or food either, let them suffer like they have done to others.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 6 | |
mycatsmom
They should have the police walk the beat again. That's the problem.........the police don't get up close and personal in the gangs' territory like David Wilkerson did....or like the police did in " West Side Story " . Yes, I know that movie was fictional,but the police really did patrol the gangs more closely like that . I even had a prof of psychology in the 80s say that the prob is.......the police don't walk the beat anymore.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 5 | |
robertgrist
Gangs arise in the absence of family as a substitute learning & experiencing social system. Since they are usually led by outspoken children who have been alienated from their home life by drugs, alcohol and a broken social order they lead toward a quest for order and discipline they did not receive at home and gather other similar children to their chosen “turf”and way of life. Their strength is extended to and throughout the gang membership, typically in a cost vs benefit scheme designed to instill loyalty, and ranking. These gangs have potential for harm and/or benefit. Our US Founding Fathers were to the British little more than a gang of thugs and ruffians who, left to their own devices eventually inspired the populous to become an independent nation. The roots of gangs is in the intolerable conditions of home life and inequality…the small, beaten down, minority.
We have brought order to this situation through a variety of organized activities such as athletics, dance and music clubs while abandoning the more pressing needs of home economics, Shops in repair and construction of electronics, pottery, arts & crafts etc.
The apparently pressing need for economic compromise nationally has negatively affected everyone. The solution as I see it is to eliminate our most pressing economic concern entirely by any and every way possible…That would be petroleum and coal as an energy source. We have ways of doing that without failing into an economic depression.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 3 | |
PANDA
" Corral them and ship them to (Afghanistan) and have them fend for them self's, of course I'd arm them with weapons and what not it's only right, and I'd give our our military (Men) a ticket stateside." tell you what!
| 12 years ago. Rating: 2 | |
sandie3
PLEASE DO NOT VOTE UP THE QUESTION OR THE ANSWER.
AND, PLEASE ACCEPT MY APOLOGIES. THIS WAS NOT INTENTIONAL.
THANK YOU. BOB/PKB