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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 726056" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>In poor, emotionally and financially impoverished areas of big cities everyone owns a gun, partly for safety. Two of my foster kids from Chicago, two brothers, told us that they could never go further for play than the small balconey off their old foster mom's apartment, that there were gang fights with guns every night and that they had seen dead bodies on their way to school. Yes, there are many foster homes in bad areas.</p><p></p><p>Businesses pull out of impoverished areas and there is nowhere to get a legal job and it seems hopeless to the people who live there. The drug dealers have all the money. Gangs are actually illegal drug businesses with many associates some as young as nine. It is very sad. I studied this issue a lot. Nobody in the area dare call the cops. 1. They don't believe the police like or will or can help them. 2. They will be a target if anyone finds out they called. 3. Cops don't always come in very hostile neighborhoods anyway.</p><p></p><p>A man I knew, a Nam vet, told me he joined the Army because it couldn't be any worse than the war zone he lived in. He did get out of his neighborhood but between his childhood and combat, he was addicted to chaos.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 726056, member: 1550"] In poor, emotionally and financially impoverished areas of big cities everyone owns a gun, partly for safety. Two of my foster kids from Chicago, two brothers, told us that they could never go further for play than the small balconey off their old foster mom's apartment, that there were gang fights with guns every night and that they had seen dead bodies on their way to school. Yes, there are many foster homes in bad areas. Businesses pull out of impoverished areas and there is nowhere to get a legal job and it seems hopeless to the people who live there. The drug dealers have all the money. Gangs are actually illegal drug businesses with many associates some as young as nine. It is very sad. I studied this issue a lot. Nobody in the area dare call the cops. 1. They don't believe the police like or will or can help them. 2. They will be a target if anyone finds out they called. 3. Cops don't always come in very hostile neighborhoods anyway. A man I knew, a Nam vet, told me he joined the Army because it couldn't be any worse than the war zone he lived in. He did get out of his neighborhood but between his childhood and combat, he was addicted to chaos. [/QUOTE]
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