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Gun Crime makes the headlines - underlying problems don't.

Butthead | 10.09.2004 12:00 | Sheffield

Beginning of this week saw more shootings in an area of sheffield (not that there are many shootings at all). Me am thinking this raises the question: what's going on beneath this kinda shit that causes a few people to take it out on each other?

 http://www.sheffieldtoday.net/viewarticle2.aspx?ArticleID=850631&SectionID=58&Search=pitsmoor&Searchtype=any&SearchSection=58&DateFrom=011995&DateTo=092004&Page=1&ReturnPage=Results.aspx

Burngreave is one place in a city of many cities - not sure if Nottingham, Leeds etc. are as divided and culturally polarised as how Sheffield seems to many people who've grown up here. Different communities (often living alongside or amongst each other) aren't always aware of what's going down up the road!

I feel that many people of a particular drug culture in one part of the city i.e. in "alternative land" choose a lifestyle of recreational drug use, while having the (generally speaking) stable background to be able to stay on the safeside of the darkside... Do people realise that if u allow white powder up yer nose then you are creating a demand, however small, bringing the dodgy shit into these shores.

Slighly pricey coke in one community (good time/ impress your mates/ brush with the law etc.) becomes cheap addictive crack (guns/ crime/ downward spiral..) for another community of people.

A tale of many cities.

 http://www.whpd.org/Images/DARE%20sign%20small.jpg

Butthead

Comments

Display the following 8 comments

  1. act local, shop local, holiday local, think local... — carter
  2. "peace on our streets!" — not from leeds personally but...
  3. Absurd — steve
  4. erm, — Butthead
  5. drugs -> gangs -> grief — a very slippery slope
  6. coke any one.. — psydonym no 207954
  7. columbia direct — Ethical drug dealer
  8. Who's out of control? — AKA