Gang violence is becoming more and more of a problem in America today. Local Street gangs make it dangerous for someone to walk down the Street. Or come home from work, or pick up your kids at school.
This is a bigger threat then most people know. Most of this gang activity is influenced Rap music and MTV music videos. And in most neighborhoods your kid has to make one of two choices; join one of the gangs, or become a victim of one.
But joining a gang doesn't make you safe. It gets worse after that. Then comes the gang wars which your kid will be fighting in. your house may get shot up or your kid may get shot by a cop because he pulled out a gun at the wrong time in the wrong place.
These are the kind of things that come out of your local Street gangs. And they think they're being cool. Getting shot at isn't cool at all. And with gangs comes drugs, too. The last thing you want your kid to do is join a gang. This is no game.
Video games like Grand Theft Auto don't help. If you are going to allow your kids to play these games then let them know that it is only a video game and not a message for him to do these things in real life.
Games can be harmless fun only if you teach them right from wrong. You need to do whatever you can to keep your kid out of gangs in keep them in school. I live in a very bad neighborhood so I know what a gang can do to a nice place in a short time.
They take out everything good about the place you live in and destroy family values. Don't let it happen to your neighborhood. I live in Las Vegas, and at the casino that my father works at five gang members jumped a guy making his rounds.
They were hitting him with their belts and throwing things on him. That is the result of local Street gangs in America.
Even in Canada in the small city i live in there is alot of gang related shootings and stabbings.
Goode work man. Keep writing.