packrat
Super_Ideal_Rock
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And we can't ignore borders and all the other things mentioned. I said and have said a hundred times, it ALL has to be taken into account. ALL of it. All. Not one part. All. That means the whole shebang. B/c by ignoring one thing, you're allowing by default, thousands of other things to happen or have the potential to happen. If you ignore borders and the weapons being brought across borders--that solves nothing. If you ignore gang crime, that solves nothing. If you ignore drugs, that solves nothing. It's all tied together. If it's not ok for one kid to be shot, then it's not ok for any of them to be shot and we need to figure out where the guns are that are shooting the kids and find a way to stop it. Not find a way to stop one kid from being shot at the expense of other kids. If 5000 kids are shot in gang related gun crimes during a year, and we focus on 20 kids who are shot in let's say domestics, that sends the message that the 5000 are not as important as the 20. They're all important. But for whatever reason, our focus continues to be on the 20, rather than the 5000 *AND* 20. We think that making the 20 not happen means the 5000 won't happen. And that's not going to work.