When you look at their percentages, it does not add up. What truth are they hiding? First off certain gun lobbyists' who act like Nazi's have to protect their attitudes/status and more importantly the bottom line. They protect gun culture/lifestyle and the profits from the economic support it gets from its members. What do you do when something/someone threatens your income; you destroy it by any means possible. Therefore, via ads propaganda, a threat and so on is non-stop.

Reality check here, say you commit a crime and now you find yourself in prison were you learn how brutal life is there. You lived in a structured environment and find that you now have friends there who have your back. You get out and find that the American middle class hates you. Find a job, it is hard if not impossible, as you have a criminal record and cannot be trusted. You find yourself unable to pay bills and obtaining a place that does a credit check on you makes it impossible to get an apartment.

So now, you are looking around you and all you see are the arrogant self-centered people out there that view you as scum. You see that these people in reality are no better than you but have all the things you can never have results in bitter resentment. Nevertheless, you are not alone in this plight, so find yourself with low self-esteem but need, and want a place to belong. Therefore, a gang is born which gives you a family, and status. It gives you self-respect, status, and a means of having. It is true otherwise; gangs would not exist in the first place. Oh, there are those select few in the same situation who manage to obtain things in life but those are few and far in-between, the ones on Oprah like shows.

Now certain gun organizations that act like Nazis say laws do not work, then why have them. The shooting of someone who is trespassing on someone's front law. Is not considered a crime, but the reality is someone was murdered. In Texas, it is okay to murder and praised as heroes for doing so. Texas the state that has no gun laws to speak of; has a huge population in its prisons and a lot of crime. Look at mainland china for example a country that has serious laws that can put you in prison for almost anything yet the united states has four times as many prisoners in jail and a population that is four times that of the states. it is only common sense then that the U.S. has four times the crime rate. What do you mean laws do not work; you only say that so you can be a hero and murder someone.

Gangs are there because the justice system is setup that way. The ones who enforce the law voted in. People are voted in instead of being appointed. Therefore, when those attitudes are enforced regardless do not complain, it is what you wanted. It maintains the cycle of crime and only perpetuates it by putting down those in that lifestyle and alienates them. The thought of having people in place people with no political agendas would not occur to you. Governments have a duty is to serve the community/public not to serve the specialty groups with the ability to remove the agents of the law, when things do not go their way. You start with the Swiss crime rates; you have no idea what you are talking about

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First off, it does not consider that maybe once exposed to criminals they will not want to live their lives like that. The age group involved here is far from stupid. It is a sad day that this small group views are now made part of the constitution. Recently the Canadian government had an agenda to change the young offenders act to stiffer penalties for young offenders, but now that would be almost impossible. They are now protected by the constitution to be treated differently from adults for offenses. Crime rates for the age group protected have dramatically increased since the implementation of the act in the past decade. Now because of this, it will get worse, this current law is proving to create more crime, so what do the established bleeding hearts do, they make sure the system does not change.

To assertion that someone under the age of 18 does not know right from wrong is sadly mistaken, as even a cat knows when it is doing something wrong. Personally, I believe that the school system is partly to blame for this. In a recent and on going study of youth crime in Calgary. It is based on 123 young offenders; it seems that they commit crimes most likely during the week and not on weekends. And it goes on to say between the 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. sounds like peer pressure the school system attitudes and not on the parents watch as actual offenders do not seem to offend while under the parents influence when present.

Nevertheless, in all fairness, these kids profiled are drug users, the parents are often absent, and there is a history of family violence. Not enough or no activities to get this age group occupied in the school system. Alternatively, other things in life other than an environment of criminal activity. This age group is not stupid and is well aware that they cannot be disciplined for their actions and in fact are given special treatment for anti-social behavior by law. Sounds to me like more of an inducement to commit crimes, as at least they would be getting attention. Attention that they seem to be in need of such as counseling and group activities. The law treating them as special would be giving them status from peers, treated with respect, something much needed. A legal system that would give young offenders serious punishments for anti-social activity combined with a school system that showed some backbone allow discipline in school and have mandatory sports or other activities that spark the interest so as to get kids involved in social activities to suit each kid.