[Dan27289]

The shootings hyped by the media (Columbine, etc.) only scratch the surface. Here in L.A., in areas such as Watts, Pico-Union, Compton, and various other areas, it seems that someone gets shot at least once a week. My friends from these areas have always told me that they are accustomed to falling asleep at night to the sounds of gunshots, sirens, and ghetto birds (police helicopters). It’s also like that in parts of Chicago and New York, as well as many other cities. This has been going on at this magnitude since I was a small kid. Back in the old days if you walked through a bad neighborhood, you could easily get beaten up, or stabbed if you were unlucky, but shootings were altogether rare. These days, you can get shot dead for looking at someone funny, wearing the wrong clothes, or walking down the wrong street at the wrong time. I don’t think guns themselves intrinsicly cause this state of affairs. I think it is a variety of societal and moral issues that are the main antagonists. Guns still are of some use in American society: Some poorer rural residents still depend on wild game to help stock their freezers or trade for other goods, and a handgun has saved more than one woman’s life from her psychotic ex-boyfriend. I believe that guns are a tool that is misused by the misguided products of a moral vacuum. Someday we may have to take away the tool, but the negativity will still be there.

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Name : Dan27289, Gender : M, Race : Hispanic/Latino (may be any race), Religion : Christian, Age : 21, City : L.A. area, State : CA, Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Social class : Lower middle class, 

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