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Dec. 10th, 2009 03:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mickeymI have Gangland on the television while I'm attempting to write working on my ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
spn_j2_xmas story, and every so often I'll glance up and catch something that makes me think, WHUT?.
This particular episode is about the Nashville gang, Brown Pride. One of the guys they're interviewing goes by the street name "Spook". He's 18. He's been in the gang since the 4th grade. He talks about how he was "carrying heat" by the time he was ten (TEN! O_O), and his and his homeboys' version of fun is to just go out and jump people for the hell of it. That's their version of a videogame.
He's just so incredibly blase about the idea of hurting someone else, of doing violence. It's such a casual attitude, and where the HELL does that come from? What makes these kids think this is something that's okay, good, ideal?
Stuff like this makes me crazy. Also makes me wish there was an island somewhere, where all the gangbangers could be rounded up and dropped off onto. Let 'em fight each other and leave the rest of the world safer for the rest of us. *sigh*
spn_j2_xmas story, and every so often I'll glance up and catch something that makes me think, WHUT?.This particular episode is about the Nashville gang, Brown Pride. One of the guys they're interviewing goes by the street name "Spook". He's 18. He's been in the gang since the 4th grade. He talks about how he was "carrying heat" by the time he was ten (TEN! O_O), and his and his homeboys' version of fun is to just go out and jump people for the hell of it. That's their version of a videogame.
He's just so incredibly blase about the idea of hurting someone else, of doing violence. It's such a casual attitude, and where the HELL does that come from? What makes these kids think this is something that's okay, good, ideal?
Stuff like this makes me crazy. Also makes me wish there was an island somewhere, where all the gangbangers could be rounded up and dropped off onto. Let 'em fight each other and leave the rest of the world safer for the rest of us. *sigh*
