Real Life "Boyz 'N the Hood" Story

[rolltideas]

I came across this story today. Very sad. It reminded me of the story line in the movie Boyz 'N the Hood where the star running back, Ricky, is trying to get out of his neighborhood (which was ironically Crenshaw) and go to college via a football scholarship. This is just a very sad story of how life truly can imitate art.

Link to story

 

[CrimsonMask]

I read this earlier.
Very sad. All he was doing was trying to ignore and not get into any trouble. Sounds like he would have been shot regardless.
Awful.....just awful.

 

[gmart74]

I feel bad for the kid. As far as the gang members, I don't think the legal system can properly deal with them. I know how I would handle it, but i'm not sure what society can do to get these people to stop acting like animals.

 

[Boo Radley]

That makes me absolutely sick. Even though we read about and hear this kind of tragedy on a regular basis nowadays, it's still hard to believe that people in a "civilized society" are capable of such senseless acts.

 

[Bama1970]

Sad situation. Gangs are destroying our country.

 

[briancm]

The time will come when we will be able to just shoot these foul forms of life and be done with them before they do any more harm.

 

[Cox036]

Sad situation. Gangs are destroying our country.

They are destroying the youth in our country...

 

[dtgreg]

If you've EVER done an illegal drug,you're just as responsible for gangs as anyone else. It's basic capitalism; supply and demand. We can't seem to decide what is a real crime [violence] in this country and so we lock up everyone. Until we legalize drugs and remove the easy money for gangs, they will only get worse. Almost everyone I know is a casual user or has been at some point. We are giving gangs our money instead of pharmacies and the gov. Why?

 

[Crimson Pig]

yay rap

 

[Leeroy]

Gangs in this country are just home grown terrorist. At some point we will be forced to treat them the same way we treat them in Iraq.








Roll Tide

 

[rgw]

If you've EVER done an illegal drug,you're just as responsible for gangs as anyone else. It's basic capitalism; supply and demand. We can't seem to decide what is a real crime [violence] in this country and so we lock up everyone. Until we legalize drugs and remove the easy money for gangs, they will only get worse. Almost everyone I know is a casual user or has been at some point. We are giving gangs our money instead of pharmacies and the gov. Why?

Prohibition has never worked on state-altering substances and never will. As you said: where there is a demand, and supplier will materialize. Gangs are simply the black market's way of regulating an asset that isn't protected by the government. Since humanity's love for being in an altered state of mind is innate in my opinion and as the old saying goes - "you can't teach an old dog new tricks", I say we need to begin looking at rational ways to legalize and control substances like marijuana, cocaine, and psychedelics. I don't have the answers for how to do this while balancing the welfare of the community, but I do know that once a government-controlled legal market materializes for trafficked drugs...gangs/mafias will disappear.

I don't think this is the place for this political argument, but I guess I've opened the can of worms. It's pretty pitiful that a guy doing the right things was killed by the very things he wisely ignored.

 

[Roll Tide]

If you've EVER done an illegal drug............

Wrong forum for this subject.

 

[Bama1970]

The time will come when we will be able to just shoot these foul forms of life and be done with them before they do any more harm.

:s-minigun:

 

[AdamMc2003]

yay rap

yes music was obviously the culprit in this :conf2: