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Growing 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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jordan11
July 19, 2007, 11:42 a.m.
~MAKE A RULE against GUNS .~>>>>
Do you really think the bad guys will follow that 'rule?'
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retbg
July 20, 2007, 12:56 a.m.
PLAIN TRUTH NUMBER 1. GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE - ASSHOL-S KILL PEOPLE!
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getanapple
July 19, 2007, 10:36 a.m.
Hollywood is a very rough area of LA, people think of the Hollywood Hills were the stars live but in the downtown Hollywood its drugs, crime and guns.
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rider87
July 19, 2007, 11:02 a.m.
yes it's terrible place where kids must grow up
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PapaWolf
July 19, 2007, 3:01 p.m.
>>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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Truzseeker
July 19, 2007, 11:05 a.m.
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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getanapple
July 19, 2007, 11:20 a.m.
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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zplan
July 19, 2007, 11:35 a.m.
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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hamy
July 19, 2007, 12:33 p.m.
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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Truzseeker
July 19, 2007, 12:48 p.m.
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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TOtheMOON
July 19, 2007, 1:35 p.m.
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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humemacdonald
July 19, 2007, 2:12 p.m.
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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queenb727
July 19, 2007, 2:13 p.m.
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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stephen-johnson
July 19, 2007, 2:22 p.m.
These kids are suffering from affluenza - they have no idea about really tough life conditions.
Victim chic lives!
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sumptuousdigs
July 19, 2007, 6:53 p.m.
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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FoxyLana
July 19, 2007, 7:34 p.m.
Those kids have no idea about real life...but are they need to know? )))
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retbg
July 20, 2007, 1:04 a.m.
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!