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In reply to the discussion: 15-year-old girl who performed at Obama inauguration gunned down in Chicago [View all]frazzled
(18,402 posts)and gang wars. It's a horrid problem, and it's taking down too many innocent children in the process. It may seem far away from many of us, but it touches us all, for these are all OUR kids. It touched us even personally a few years ago. My husband had a teaching assistant assigned to his class whom he liked enormously, an extremely dedicated and intelligent young African American graduate student. One day she called to say she suddenly couldn't be at class: her young 13-year-old cousin had been killed while driving home with an older brother and younger sister from a basketball game. As the shooters opened fire on their car, he threw himself over his little sister and was killed. We were devastated, shocked, and ... helpless.
To get a better understanding of retaliation killings and what people are trying to do about it, watch The Interrupters, the 2011 documentary from Kartemquin Films and the people who produced Hoop Dreams.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/interrupters/