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Posted By rider87 1 year, 11 months ago in StyleGrowing up in Los Angeles ain't easy!! "Everyone thinks Hollywood is so glamorous, but I have news for you. It is really dangerous growing up in L.A. People have guns. SometimesI think I'm going crazy. I'm going to get out of here just as soon as I can." Zavier,aged 18
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BronxBomber1 year, 11 months ago
Yeah!Take the guns off law-abiding citizens, and the recidivists can feel free to victimize the same. Good idea befound1....NOT!
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retbg1 year, 11 months ago
PLAIN TRUTH NUMBER 1. GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE - ASSHOL-S KILL PEOPLE!
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earthlingerer1 year, 11 months ago
Downtown Everywhere, USA is drugs, crime and guns. Maybe you don't see it through tinted Mercedes and BMW windows.
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kedirian1 year, 11 months ago
Most kids MUST not grow up there; they usually leave home, anywhere USA, hitchike or pimp themselves to Hollywood to fantasize about "making it in Hollywood" - all puerile dreams, characterized by a poor grip on reality!
It's true also, that in far too many homes in these United States there is no meaningful interaction, just Mom, Dad and kids gliding - like ships in the night! - past one another under the same roof...
Even with the best of intentions, our personalities and superficial public schooling will - with a few exceptions - not be a match against the diabolical, cleverly thought-out marketing trics that Capitalism employs to enhance its bottomline!
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PapaWolf1 year, 11 months ago
>>More guns in the hands of law abiding citizens equals less crime
That's could be true, but it's debatable.
- It might make someone think twice about committing a crime against another.
- It might also make that someone shoot first
- It could also lead to more accidental shootings, especially without any type of licensing requiring training. After all, we need a license to drive & get married.
- And it could lead to an increase in injuries & deaths in fits of rage. Where an unarmed person may either attack someone with their bare hands of a less damaging weapon, or even think twice about attacking someone in a rage for fear of retaliation, an armed person can easily pull out a gun and start shooting. There are reports in papers every day about someone being shot during an argument. It takes more guts to attack someone close up than to pull out a gun at 20 paces & pull the trigger.
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earthlingerer1 year, 11 months ago
It could... It might...
Ever tried to just pull a 9mm or a .380 at twenty paces and hit? Fast? While the target was armed and moving? Didn't think so.
When you're about to get married, do they ask you if you're insane, a drug addict, or ever been incarcerated?
I read papers "every day" and I don't see these supposed events.
Don't cry Wolf.
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PapaWolf1 year, 11 months ago
So none of you can even admit that the possibilities exist. Interesting.
Let's take your ==>The victim does not need to be armes, only some bystandard, who can take his/her time to aim and put a big hole in their chest of the attacker.
a step further. Someone's getting attacked. A few people pull out guns & start firing. The police show up as all these "bystanders" are aiming at the attacker. How, exactly, would the police know who's the good guy & who's the bad guy?
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tkyrchncs1 year, 11 months ago
Oh come on. I was given my first gun at age 10. And I haven't shot anyone. Yet.
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Truzseeker1 year, 11 months ago
I am sick about hearing about better education. Piles and piles of money have been thrown at this notion with no results. California barely rates on the educational stats, and WHY ? Tell me WHY? I'll tell you why, because the money is going somewhere else, and as a native California I am disgusted in what I have seen through the years involving preferential treatment especially for those that don't pay taxes. California is overtaxed and overregulated, and with all of the money being collected the roads should and ought to be paved in GOLD !
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getanapple1 year, 11 months ago
The problem is hope, without hope people never excel. Education should also generate hope in the future to succeed.
The crime, drugs and guns on the street are despair (lack of hope).
Guns are a side effect, not the cause.
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zplan1 year, 11 months ago
Good old Hollywood. Land of hyper-reality. so many mixed messages about what reality is, and it is everywhere there is a TV set.So much is promised via advertising and not delivered.Things simply don't come as easy as a picture show depicts. Then one is let down, constantly. Can't imagine why so many are depressed. I hope the lad got out of glitterville.
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hamy1 year, 11 months ago
I live in Chicago. In a not-so-great-but-changing neighborhood. Chicago is over 9 million people. We do not have concealed weapons laws allowing everyone to carry a gun. I have never owned a gun nor do I think I will. I have been the victim of the occasional crime, but nothing life threatening. I grew up in Texas where you can carry a gun. It's encouraged. I was in a suburb of maybe 250K
people. I never felt safe there.
More guns aren't the answer. Tougher crime laws are the answer.
Perso
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y_soitenly1 year, 11 months ago
hamy,
Re: We do not have concealed weapons laws allowing everyone to carry a gun.
CHICAGO:
Some 4,300 guns have been collected through the annual "Gun Turn-In" events, according to Vance Henry, director of the police department's Chicago Community Alternative Policing Strategies. CAPS and religious leaders serve as sponsors, with corporate support.
Chicago prohibits residents from keeping handguns unless they were registered with police before 1983. Nonetheless, guns are involved in 80 percent of the city's murders, Mayor Richard Daley said. To date, there have been 225 homicides in Chicago, the police department said.
Proponents of the gun-amnesty program emphasized the toll that gun violence has taken on young people. So far this year, several Chicago students have perished in gang-related shootings.
"Every gun turned in is potentially another life saved," said the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who joined Daley on Tuesday.
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Truzseeker1 year, 11 months ago
Good comment tuxedoxpress ! just the facts and reality of living in the "greater" Los Angeles. Also "hope" does nothing except for delay the inevitable that central LA is a hell hole, and no one will take care of cleaning it up including the corruption. Its mayor is a joke, haven't you heard about his affair with the channel 52 blond ? and police won't go into armed gang infested hot zones.
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TOtheMOON1 year, 11 months ago
I grew up and continue to live in Minnesota. I've never owned a gun and have never needed one. The drive to have money wasn't as big as the drive to have fun - choose a profession I loved, a man that made me laugh, kids who spent most of their lives smiling - was my goal. I don't stop and look at myself in the mirror every time I pass one, and I don't let crime run my life - there just isn't a lot of it here. I have a great life. And I have never had the desire to visit California. IMO and as I see it portrayed, altho it may not be true, Calif. doesn't seem to have a soul to it.
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humemacdonald1 year, 11 months ago
Wow I thought this article was really depressing- what a horrible way to grow up- all alone and self absorbed.
I really can't get over how many young people are having plastic surgery now. I think it is really disgusting and shows what a intolerant world we live in. Everyone wants the same cookie cutter look lest they be that big bad word-different.
Nobody is comfortable being unique anymore. I hate it.
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queenb7271 year, 11 months ago
I live in the south so everyone here has guns too. I wish there was better gun control. But I will admit, a lot of criminals think twice about robbing someone at gun point down here. They might end up getting shot by a citizen with a permit to carry concealed.
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earthlingerer1 year, 11 months ago
I've been to Hollywood, there are many with guns who have NEVER even been in contact with anyone with this "affluenza".
You must mean Simi.
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sumptuousdigs1 year, 11 months ago
When I was a kid I used to get in a lot of fist fights.
As a late bloomer, I appeared to be an easy target for bullies. i developed the 'prison attitude' : Bow up, don't back down. When I was a teen I carried a knife. A kid jumped me one time (new school) and I pulled my knife. I was crazed!
Adults intervened and no one got hurt. I sometimes wonder what would have happened if I had been packing heat.
Just like the world around us. Kids haven't changed that much ...but the arms race IS ON!
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FoxyLana1 year, 11 months ago
Those kids have no idea about real life...but are they need to know? )))
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retbg1 year, 11 months ago
RULE NUMBER 1 TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM - USE A GUN (OR ANY OTHER DEADLY WEAPON), GO TO JAIL! NO EXEPTIONS, NO EXCUSES! NO AGE LIMIT! NO NOTHING. USE A GUN, GO TO JAIL! BANGERS, KIDS, CRIMINALS, ORDINARY FOLKS WHO USE A GUN OUTSIDE THE LAW, POLITICIANS, ANYBODY! DO A CRINE AND YOU GET 5 YEARS THE FIRST TIME, 10 YEARS THE SECOND TIME AND LIFE THE THIRD TIME. BETCHA GUN CRIME WOULD GO DOWN! SIMPLE AS PIE!
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