http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/09/25/god-it-s-got-to-stop.html
It's a way of getting gang members together with citizens and rival gangs, to develop some empathy--feeling for others--and a sense of responsibility. You are hurting innocent people who don't deserve this pain. You do this again, and you are going straight to jail.
Of course it has to be done consistently. If you let it drop, the violence comes back.
I think this might help in Laredo and its sister city across the border, Nueva Laredo.
My own belief is that not all gang members and drug cartel members are bad. I think they get caught up in a cycle of violence and give in to peer pressure. Violence begets violence, drug profits are high, the drug gangs fight for distribution channels, and the massive hunger for drugs keeps increasing in the dysfunctional USA.
I think we should legalize drugs, to reduce the profit and the violence, turn our resources to drug treatment and education, and institute programs like Ceasefire.
Certainly, something has to be done. (See the previous post, below.)
-- Roger
Copyright © 2011, Roger R. Angle
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