Gun crime. What do you think?

Question

This is a complex subject, but what do you think are some of the reasons for the crimes.I have no real answers but I have thoughts. 1.Guns can easily be imported in containers 2.Kids can divorce themselves from the reality of their actions due to things like computer games e.g.Grand Theft Auto 3. Parents do not spend enough time or instill enough moral value in their children for various reasons. I am sure their are other things so what do you think

For those of you in America, people don't generaly own guns over here, nor are our police armed exept in certain situations thank goodness. also I watched films and played games when I was a kid but it was not a solo inter-active thing and I didn't relate game playing with really shooting people but being with friends and a social activity Like I said, it is a complex question, and I have no answers

Answer 1

I think gun crimes are a lot to do with TV, films and video games.
Young people don't seem to realise that it's all make believe....they get hyped up and want to know the real feeling of shooting someone. I bet some even thing that the person who they are going after with a gun won't die.
Well they don't die on video games do they?
Also, drugs causes a lot of the violence. Being jealous of their piers who have money and gang status causes violence too.
I worry for my grandchildren and even worry when I'm driving through an area where a lot of things happen.

Answer 2

Once again, gun control is the solution of the simple minded. The problem is not and never has been the gun, it is the attitude, morals and values of the person holding it. What type of message have we been giving for a generation now by legal abortion? We are saying, yes, when it's inconvenient, it's okay to end someone else's life!

We did our best to kick God out school which was ridiculous because if you will study American history it become obvious that no such thing was ever intended by the framers of the constitution, that liberal judges who lived 150 years after the fact thought they new better than the generations that did allow God into the schools. And the very next year in America you could see a substantial increases in teenage crime, teenage suicide and teenage pregnancy. What did that message tell those young people then, the same ones that many of today's adults who live in dysfunctional families with children who can't seem to tell the difference from right from wrong?

The gun is simply not the problem. Its the person holding it.

Answer 3

If I examine your avatar very closely I would venture to say that you are Oriental in persona and locality.
What would be the reason for such differences. Lets use Japan as an example. Japan as well as the rest of the Orient have had a long standing tradition of respect for others and especially for the elderly. The elderly are looked upon with respect and not as a burden to their children or society.
What does that have to do with guns or lack thereof. Plenty. Again, a sense of respect for the elderly and their neighbors. They understand the value of honor.
Here in the west whether it be north America or Europe, honor means nothing. No disrespect intended here. I am a firm believer in honor and respect, but those are terms lost here in the west.
Here in the west everything is about entertainment. MTV, reality shows, sex this, sex that. Parents are more or less, but I would say more, are now forced into a two income family lifestyle. That means nobody to stay home with the kids. parents come home tired and can't give quality time to their kids. So moral issues go out the window. But then again the school system teaches their own form of morality.

Answer 4

You are right parents do not spend enough time with their kids instilling discipline.

Why?
Because the economy is structured now so that basically most parents have to both work to pay for theit inflated mortgage. Which means the children are bundled into nurseries and schools to learn how to behave..

Only now the teacher have essentially no power to instill any discipline. So the kids basically feel they can do whatever they please.

For example (from my own teaching experience)

Me: Right you have been warned you are on detention.
Pupil: ooh a detention.... what you gonna do if I don't go?

Me: Then you will get two.
Pupil: So i won't go them either.

Me: Get out we will discuss this at the end of the lesson.
Pupil: No problem if you give a detention i'm gonna tell the headmaster you tried to rape me.

and what happens when I report the incident? Nothing because the kid has Emotional Behaviour Problems - Thats the new term for being naughty. Teaching today is like trying to beat back the Ocean with one hand tied behind your back.

Before computer games it was films and comics the glorification of violence has always been there. What its missing is respect for others and self respect. Guns don't kill people by themselves.

We need to get tough on discipline and stay tough on discipline in schools. We need to sort pay structures out so families can spend more time with their children and we need to give young people the opportunity to pursue interesting and varied careers beyond stacking shelves and working in telesales. There is a distinct lack of opportunity for kids to get apprenticeships in Mechanics, Engineering etc etc.

If you ask me we have passed the point of no return and this country will eventually meet its demise and its not going to be pretty. Riots, racial hatred, building burned out, drug epidemics its all on the cards.... coming soon to a town near you.

Answer 5

Not too sure why this question is in the Seniors category other than you are a senior questioner.,,, Guns have always been around but were mainly used by the proffessional criminals and villains..Youngdters of the past 20 years or so have been brought up on games for electronic things. Play stations etc. Many of these games extol violence and rely on blastind and exterminating to complete the game,, Kids get inured to sights of horror, death and mutilation.. They treat the use of force ,knives and now guns as part of everyday life. As a boy in the 1940's we had gangs, not criminal or violent but protective in a way of the area in which we lived.. WE had the odd scraps, perhaps afew stones were thrown or catapults used, but no one got badly hurt, the odd bruise perhaps.. Thiswas all forgotten by the age of 14 or so .. It wasn't hatred or emnity, just a bit of rivalry. No kids and young people today have been indocrinated by the games and media into what they are... For all this, these are in the minority, very much so. The vast majority of young people are too busy studying, passing exams and learning.. Going to college and Uni, learning trades and crafts. and becoming good citizens. The crimefactor among the young is being hyped by the media. We all obviously feel for the victims and their families, but it is only a tiny minority of people who feel the need to the recourse to guns and knives. Don't let things get out of proportion.

Answer 6

I live in a Small village close to the English Lake District An Idell you might think, for me yes it is. But amongst the youngsters in the area there is an acceptance of casual violence which amazes me.
When I talk to them ( and I am able to with out fear ) they are polite, helpful, full of fun and optimistic.
They don't worry about the violence and say "Oh yes so and so kicked off again last night but we sorted him" or sadly her. What I am trying to say I think is that they are not bad Kids but they live in a different world to the one I grew up in Many years ago. but in contradiction to my early rant I wonder have things changed very much, indeed my Father used to boast that in the part of the city he was born in the policemen had too patrol in twos He was proud it was a tough district.

One point people missed is the almost complete absence of responsible adults on the streets. We are all in our cars and the streets are domain of the young the criminal and the perverted.

Answer 7

Your fact is thrilling, yet fake. (with regard to the united statesany way.) the united statesis an somewhat violent u . s . a .. Black individuals make up a minimum of 15% of the united statespopulation. 7% being male, i will garantee there are extra whites with weapons commiting merely as many crimes. bypass to the FBI information superhighway website there stats will back what i'm announcing, to boot by way of fact the Census Bureau. by skill of how, why is homicide the extensive form one reason for loss of existence for pregnant women interior the U S. is this the case in in Britain? Did you ever hear of white collored crimes, they're merely as hideous, and disgusting, yet they're punished in yet in any different case from the crimes of the destructive persons in this u . s . a ., the offenders of this crime even have separate prisons. Peace! P.S. we can thank the British for the present racist and caste platforms setups, we see in a great form of worldwide places, to boot by way of fact the U S! extremely of working your mouth, detect a treatment to poverty, that could desire to help so lots extra. till then you definately are interior the comparable boat as bush, sharpton, jackson, rove clinton, obama!

Answer 8

Gun crime...oh you opened up a can of worms....first off, if everyone was educated on how a gun works instead of trying to figure out what we should do, then all would be happy...its not the guns fault...think im wrong? lat one on the table...did it jump on its own? did it move on its own? no...and it will not move until someone or something moves it...moral values have nothing to do with guns either....think im wrong? the only moral issues here is...does the child have parents who have the nuts and guts to teach the proper usage of a gun? no need to be afraid of one, if parents teach their children about firearms, then we would not need to be having this conversation time and time again.......if you do not like them, that's your business, but still teaching a child that guns are bad, has got to be one of the dumbest things a parent could do........teach that child why firearms are dangerous and then teach them the proper use.......but for the love of pete, don't tell them they are bad, because it is then they will want to find out just how bad they were told

Answer 9

I don't think TV, guns or video games kill people. People kill People.

I grew up around guns, hunting, target practice, watching cowboys and Indians shooting each other and war movies.

When my friends and I played we had fake guns and shot each other.

We were educated about guns and Real guns were not to be played with! My father made sure I knew what damage a gun would do. He made me shoot a deer. Now I know that is not possible for all parents to do but whats one Saturday at the shooting range for a gun safety class. Think about it, they stopped showing "Red Asphalt" in schools because it was to graphic, Now look at all the teenage drunk drivers!

Parents NEED TO BE RESPONSIBLE!!!!! And not blame kids playing with guns on TV, video game and the movies!

Teach your kids about GUN SAFETY! Make sure that when your kid goes and plays at someones house that the other parents are responsible too! Lock you guns up!

Answer 10

I have been banging my head against my grandson's brick walls (of intellect--or lack thereof) for three years now.

I have been trying daily to instill a sense of responsibility for their actions. And to be able to judge what would be a "good" action to take against what would be a "bad" action to do.

I can tell you absolutely that they just don't get it.

Your doing "this" bad thing results in "this" punishment, so learn to think and decide not to do "that" bad thing that earned you the punishment...pretty simple, huh? Not to them! They will turn around within five minutes and do the same thing again. And the ONLY thing they are ever sorry for is if you CATCH THEM AT IT!

I KNOW that no matter how much teaching these kids were given on guns and gun safety, they would only be intent on seeing how big a bang it made, and how big a hole would result. Period.

So there is never going to be--NO WAY NO HOW--any way that I will tolerate my grandsons having guns. And if I ever catch them with one then I will quite literally beat them black and blue.

If they want to play with guns, let them join the Army or the Police. But not while they're teenagers, and certainly NOT IN MY HOME!