Gangsta Culture To Blame For Gun-Crime

[Ted Striker]

Actually I agree 100% with Bods/Infatplayeration.

Mass media portrayal of thug culture has a definite influence on people and encourages the thug life. It was common sense to me but now after meeting some of these guys, they have reinforced my own views.

I have some friends here in LA that used to run in gangs, they've been through it all, drivebys, car chases, tagging (spray painting) buildings. A few of the guys in their gang had actually killed a couple of people.

They told me that after the movie "Colors" came out that the gang violence just exploded. They all said that the music and movies all influenced them to a very heavy degree.

I saw one picture of a 2003 UK gang and they had a sitdown picture taken where they were all emulating the gangs of 1920s Chicago.

This is the stupidest thing America has ever exported. Well, actually it's the second stupidest thing after the Ricki Lake Show.

[Al B. Sure!]

The
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Everybody

that's 2pac for you... he thought thug life was a product of and a retaliation against the mis-education of children in society...


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[Al B. Sure!]

anyway, yeah most of the problems are by wanna-be's... i mean the real drug dealers cause a whole lot of problems to a community but they generally don't be all guns blazing and **** (it's unprofitable)... there are a whole lot of young boys between 16 and 21 or so, however, who always be acting tough... they do drugs a whole lot, pack gats, form little crews, attack boys from other neighbourhoods, etc. Most of them do come from broken homes or whatever but they really not that tough... but it's kind of easy to pretend to be tough if you got a gat in your hand... it's these fools that usually be shooting and all that nonsense


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[Dis]

I say we outlaw gangsters

[Ted Striker]

Hey Speer I agree with you that those kids are coming from broken homes and deep down aren't really that strong. The problem that creates though is that they are always out to prove to everyone how manly they are because they haven't proven they are manly to themselves. That's what makes them so dangerous so when you put a gat in their hands, they are very likely to use it.

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
These guys are in it for the money right? If they didn't have the drug trade it would be something else like car theft or robbery. They'd still fight over turf.

THANK YOU

[Al B. Sure!]

Ted Striker:

but coming against music don't solve nothing... what we need is a new moralism where we re-emphasis marriage and abstinence from both sex and drugs... with that, people will have happy homes and both parents... children born into such lives will not become little wanna be gangsters


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[Asher]

what we need is a new moralism where we re-emphasis marriage and abstinence from both sex and drugs...

nonono!

what we need is a new moralism where we re-emphasis rock music and marijuana from both rap and hiphop

We need to ban rap, Speer, ban rap and you solve everything! Would 2pac be alive if he didn't rap????



Keep your morals to yourself. Realize not everyone is like you, not everyone is in your pathetic situation, and not everybody gives a damn about your situation.

yay.

[Ted Striker]

Well, you remember back when the gang problem was epidemic, alot of the gangsta rappers started to reverse their message and started to tell people to chill out. They realized the impact they were having on people.

I agree that fixing social problems is one step but musicians should take responsibility for the messages they are sending out because they have a heavy influence on people.

[orange]

Originally posted by Asher

nonono!

what we need is a new moralism where we re-emphasis rock music and marijuana from both rap and hiphop

We need to ban rap, Speer, ban rap and you solve everything! Would 2pac be alive if he didn't rap????



Keep your morals to yourself. Realize not everyone is like you, not everyone is in your pathetic situation, and not everybody gives a damn about your situation.

yay.

:wild applause:

:whistles:

:shouts for encore:

[Al B. Sure!]

What is this? Asher and orange are gay lovers now? constantly applauding and egging on each other?

[red_jon]

Just because no-one remotely sane would ever agree with your twisted views.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Albert Speer
What is this? Asher and orange are gay lovers now?

We're just experimenting...you want in? That could be interesting too.

[Al B. Sure!]

maybe... computer nerds are sexy... do you like Intels?

[Asher]

I love Intels! OMG Speer, we're made for eachother.