Last week, we posted on the seemingly senseless murders of a
jogger in rural Oklahoma by three teenagers, who said they did it because they
were bored. By the end of the week, it
was being reported that the murder was part of a gang
initiation for their offshoot of the Crips. The kids were caught when the father
of another kid who was being forcibly recruited by the gang (he was resisting)
saw the gangsters show up at his house and call the police.
The gang-initiation angle is being used
as an explanation that is supposedly better than boredom. It isn’t. They’re basically the same. Both senseless
murders of an innocent person with no connection to them or their criminal
activities. It’s still senseless and
depraved. Anyone who thinks gangs are
only an urban problem and that rural gangsters are a joke is completely wrong.
Gangs are gangs, crime is crime. Drugs are a bigger problem in rural areas than
urban areas and murder more prevalent there.
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