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Originally Posted by highthief
I agree that Miller is a fool, and I think the majority of Canadians would support much tougher sentences for underage (and adult) offenders.
But, you know, there is a cultural problem. Taking away domestic disputes, the majority of the murders committed in the last couple of years is Jamaican on Jamaican, Somali on Somali or Sri Lankan on Sri Lankan, at least in T.O.. And it is time for these communities, most notably, to start changing their culture that embraces gangs, guns and knives, and start becoming part of the rest of society. But right now, its acceptable in these communities, especially among the kids. Guy will get gunned down in front of 200 people at a club, and there'll somehow be zero witnesses, because the community tolerates this garbage.
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True. I haven't been watching the media in the last day or so, but prior to that the black community was largely silent. There were a couple of black youth leaders speaking out, one guy was fairly well spoken and was critical of this kind of behaviour. Others seemed to use the situation to get up on a soap box and say that if they had more government grants, then it would help to prevent this kind of thing.
I remember as a teenager there was a lot of talk that the media was influencing kids in their antisocial behaviour. At the time, I thought it was a lot of crap. Now, as I am approaching old-fogeydom, I am not so sure. The images of what it takes to be a "big man" that are everywhere in the media aimed at teenagers today is frightening. Kids without a strong sense or self or sense of what's right and wrong will try to emulate the crap they see coming at them from TV.
At the end of the day, there are probably about 20 reasons that this kind of crap has happened. You will never ever be able to eliminate the things that lead to violence. It's just completely awful that a 15 year old girl in the prime of her life was snuffed out for no reason other than a bunch of fools trying to act tough.