Quote Originally Posted by Zentetsuken
I'm not saying we should harmonize the hobbies of everyone world-wide. I live in Canada, so maybe it's a little different here, I dont know? All I know is that I see a the news everyday about Toronto growing in gun crime at a ridiculous dramatic rate and it makes me ill. It's quite literally the most stereotypical situation ever, it involves gang crime, mainly "gangsters" and their ability to purchase illegal guns. In my opinion a lot of the morals of the hip-hop culture are giving kids negative messages and possibly adding to the gun-death growth rate. I would love to see it go, and I'm sure the families and friends of those who have lost there lives to gun/gang crime may agree.
in all actuallity, it's not the hip-hop culture influencing this violence, it's the gang-culture, that's associated widely with the hip-hop culture, that is infact, promoting this violence. in that aspect, i wish gangs were erased, i'm yet to see one positive come from a gang... you don't see a bunch of bloods running around handing out food to homeless people, you don't see a bunch of crips gathering toys/clothes for orphans... all i've ever seen gangs do is promote drug use (which i'm not totally against, i feel that any drug is safe, as long as it's used right.. that excludes shit like otc pills, huffing fumes or so on, as those aren't 'real drugs', but something that was just discovered more then likely by a teen desperate to get high) and violence, which i am against, but even if one notorious group for violence (gangs for example) were erased/disposed of, there would just be another group rising up soon after to pick up where the previous group (gangs in this example) left off. the world will never be free of violence, it's just not in human nature, true some have better control then others, but i'm yet to know of someone, that's at a relatively decent age (of course a 3-month old isn't violent) that hasn't resorted to violence, some way, some how, at one point in their life, keeping in mind, even abusive words are violence (not cuss words, abusive words, tho sometimes they go hand in hand, but to say cuss words alone promote violence would be to say that bullets alone will kill someone (true they could, but how many deaths do you hear about where someone died by a bullet one way or another that wasn't fired by a gun?).