Gun Crime.... Who's responsible?

Question

Nature or Nurture? These young kids killing each other with guns. Is it the fault of a failing society or is it just plain bad parenting?

And if society is to blame, then why arn't all the single parents, unemployed, disadvanged low socio economic class's, carrying guns and shooting each other? Why are the vast majority of these people decent, honest and good people who just get on with their lives?

We seem to have a lot of young people who have dsylexia and attention deficit syndromes, When I was at school it was called being naughty? So nature or Nurture?

Answer 1

Nature or nurture! no to both. its the government that has given to much authority to these children

Answer 2

Its simple. Can a person discern the difference between right and wrong? If the answer is yes, they that person is the one responsible. No matter how they were brought up if they now its WRONG to start shooting people, if they have that level of intelligence, then they are responsible and should be held accountable. It doesn't matter if its guns, or ball bats or anything else. Attacking guns while letting criminals off the hook is stupid. It doesn't matter if they are young, old, part of a gang or not. Hold the individual responsible and make the punishment fit the crime rather than givieng them a slap on the writst.

Answer 3

The influx of weapons into the UK has come from weak immigration controls, most of them coming from the Eastern Bloc as it once was. A few years ago, getting a weapon was the preserve of serious criminals. Nowadays it's as easy as buying a pint in a pub.
Educating kids that getting shot is not fun at all, and the kudos of carrying a firearm is more likely to get you violently killed than respect from your peers is the way forward.
Education has come a long way in the 30 years since I was at school. You're right, a kid with attention defecit was kept in the corner or caned. Disruptive kids were beaten into submission. Teachers humiliating the kids was commonplace, but it did serve to educate our generation.
It's not societys fault, it's the Governments fault for letting it get like that in the first place.

Answer 4

Parents need to take responsibility for their children's actions. There are plenty of other kids living on that estate in London and on estates all over the world where people have to live with gangs and drugs and they are not killing people. Parents need to be in control of their kids and let them know what is right and wrong. The government is also to blame as they have taken away the discipline that most of these kids need. There is no discipline at home, in schools or even when people grow up and commit murder the sentences do not reflect the crime

Answer 5

I think the problem lies on our society. Few people actually encourage their children to go around shooting each other.
However, put kids in a town where there is inadequate housing, and nothing much to do, and guess what you get? Bored children whose only ambition is to socialise with their peers.
Kids need fathers, caring fathers who will invest in the emotional well being of the children. They need interested mothers who have th time and energy to devote to their children.
Put a pile of rats together in inadequate space and they turn on each other. Why should humans be any different?
Also, our society has very low standards. We admire those who drink, who do drugs - we admire the "hard" man (and woman) while the loving kind person is sneered at.
We need to overhaul our society - start placing a value on decent living. Do away with yobbish behaviour. And we can also put aside sentiment - for real deep feeling.
The answer is to put aside the "rights" to have a child and instead ask "does my child deserve this"?

Answer 6

it is sometimes bad parenting, but not always, my mom is a good parent and no matter how much she disciplines my brother for some reason he still wants to go out and be a bad kid, she trys her hardest she has even decided to start sitting in some of his classes at school to see whats going on and to see if he will be good while she is there, most parents dont do that, my mom is what u call a parent.

our society is to blame for some of these problems, when moms were able to stay at home kids were in more control, houses were in order and were kept up, kids were being taught morals and values of life. now that u have a lot of single parents out there or u now have situations where both parents have to work, kids are bing raised by mtv. they watch and follow whats on tv. monkey see monkey do. and look at what they show on tv. i mean people are pratically having sex on local channels, if kids are watching that they are gonna think it is ok to have sex. that goes for everything else shown on tv also!!!!

Answer 7

All those conditions exist in Western societies, and yet the US runs away from everyone in terms of the rate of gun crime. The problem is America's precious so-called constitutional right to have your own private arsenal.

Here's something that takes a very small leap in logic: no guns, no gun crime.

It's true that people kill people, but why should we make it so easy for them by putting guns in their hands?

Answer 8

society isn't to blame coz:
* i came from a single-parent family and im not going around shooting ppl like some sort of redneck,
* disadvantaged low socioeconomic classes have other things to worry about,
* most of the youth of today are just plain lazy. im allowed to say that coz im still in skool and half of the class are just too lazy to do their work. as 4 attention deficit syndromes well they dont exist since half of the ppl who claim 2 have it are just attention seekers.

i say its 50cent's fault coz he's going round saying "i've been shot 9 times and im still alive" is it any wonder why so many ppl r copying him? they have some twisted idea that they'd survive just coz he did. he should just shut up, go in a corner and keep quiet coz no1 cares.

Answer 9

Ivan Drago is right. Its the people who pull the triggers.
I Cr 13;8a
In ten years of military service I handled many weapons and never shot anyone. I always carried a 45 as an MP.
I Cr 13;8a

Answer 10

I believe that a violent person will be just that, whether they possess a gun or choose another method. The cause is not that consistent but must be determined by evaluating that specific individual.