Guns
This poor kid from Vancouver was shot and killed for seemingly no reason on Saturday night. He wasn't involved in gangs, was a pacifist, against guns, and an artist. At 22 he has a life full of promise ahead of him, now it’s over because of some idiot with a gun.
In the media reports after people were at a loss as to why he may have been shot. It seemed there was no reason for it. He was standing outside of a nightclub, some fool started brandishing a gun around and he tried to intervene between the guy brandishing a gun and someone he was trying to intimidate and for his efforts he was shot in the head at point blank range. Senseless, random, lunacy, idiocy, and waste.
I have my own theory about this. Rappers like 50 cent glorify guns, movies are a fest of gore and violence, and kids can kill as many people as they want on video games every night of the week if they want yet we wonder aloud what could have led to the cause of a seemingly senseless and random shooting?
I can hear the catcalls now. Not everybody who listens to 50 cent buys guns and kills people. True. But how many buy the gangster cd's, clothes, and adopt the slang? Maybe not everyone but lots do. How many buy guns as a result? Not many, but a few do. How many kill, not many, but one did. That stuff has an influence whether we know it or not and I don't think we're really aware of how much an influence it has. You get the gangster set that buys guns, their rivals buy guns, and then there are those who are caught in between, some of whom fear these types and buy guns.
You never seen this stuff in the 70's or 80's. But after films like Boys in the Hood, Menace to Society, Jasons Lyric, Clockers, New Jersey Drive, New Jack City, Colors, and others like it you started seeing it in Vancouver after.
That whole American gang sub-culture is here in a big way. The last missing piece was the killing at random of innocent bystanders. Sadly, I think it too is here now as evidenced by the random shooting last Saturday of young Lee Matasse. It's not just here we let it here and watched it happen under our very noses.
In the media reports after people were at a loss as to why he may have been shot. It seemed there was no reason for it. He was standing outside of a nightclub, some fool started brandishing a gun around and he tried to intervene between the guy brandishing a gun and someone he was trying to intimidate and for his efforts he was shot in the head at point blank range. Senseless, random, lunacy, idiocy, and waste.
I have my own theory about this. Rappers like 50 cent glorify guns, movies are a fest of gore and violence, and kids can kill as many people as they want on video games every night of the week if they want yet we wonder aloud what could have led to the cause of a seemingly senseless and random shooting?
I can hear the catcalls now. Not everybody who listens to 50 cent buys guns and kills people. True. But how many buy the gangster cd's, clothes, and adopt the slang? Maybe not everyone but lots do. How many buy guns as a result? Not many, but a few do. How many kill, not many, but one did. That stuff has an influence whether we know it or not and I don't think we're really aware of how much an influence it has. You get the gangster set that buys guns, their rivals buy guns, and then there are those who are caught in between, some of whom fear these types and buy guns.
You never seen this stuff in the 70's or 80's. But after films like Boys in the Hood, Menace to Society, Jasons Lyric, Clockers, New Jersey Drive, New Jack City, Colors, and others like it you started seeing it in Vancouver after.
That whole American gang sub-culture is here in a big way. The last missing piece was the killing at random of innocent bystanders. Sadly, I think it too is here now as evidenced by the random shooting last Saturday of young Lee Matasse. It's not just here we let it here and watched it happen under our very noses.
posted by Wawmeesh, George Hamilton @ 9:27 PM
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