Gangs in My City

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When you've lived in town controlled by gangs the words "Tomorrow isn't promised today" are taken serious. I was born and raised in Camden, AR in a single parent home and was exposed to gangs in very young age. While I was a kid I was taught how drop when you heard gunshots. The gangs here are always fighting wherever they go and taking risk of getting killed most of the time. Just not only gang member that can die during a gang fights but there be people that aren’t in gangs die too. I know all gang members’ motto is basically kill or be killed and get high all the time. It happens so often because drugs and alcohol are very addictive and harmful here in town. Most of the gang members here sometimes are teens still in high school and when they use drugs they’re lose more knowledge and its become harder for them to understand things so they eventually dropout of school. Since some teens don’t go to school anymore they work harder on being a gangster and most of them end up in jail or dead, barely of them think about changing because gangs become their life. In my opinion, high school teens in my city are at risk of joining gangs. I think that is a big deal because when teens join a gang its like they sinking deeper and deeper into it and it becomes almost impossible for them to able to get out of it. It’s sad to see them to waste their precious life and thinking it’s a cool idea to be in a gang. When they join in a gang it’s really not even close of being cool but more like it’s just having pain and power. They get caught up with other gang members thinking that their family but its not nothing just straight fake respect. Only teens can see that joining a gang is like asking for a death wish really and their real family is all they need to be with and not being a gang. It’s not right for people to be afraid to go outside or to be scared of getting robbed and killed.
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