When I was 14, I got my first job on the loading dock of the local newspaper, we thought of girls,beer and maybe sneaking a cigarette or joint behind the barn, not shooting people and we rode around with our deer rifles on our gun racks in our trucks all the time back then.
People in the inner city don't have a clue what a true good time is I guess.
Cuttin' Firewood with my Pa for the Winter... Playing Capture the Flag... Maybe Ravi-Knocking some houses and Running...
Occasionally TPing a House.
Sneakin' some Booze.
A Fist Fight after School that the Crowd would End when it was Obvious it was Over...
There is a Police Station @ my High School now...
We had the First Police Presence there in 1989 and that was over too many Fights... That was High School, not 14 year olds...
And Southside East Westminster ain't a Nice Area.
And example of a Girl in my Hood (a Friends little Sister) who got mixed up in Gangs in and around High School Age, she was Busted Breaking into Houses and Stealing Guns for the Gang she was with...
She is Entirely Detached from Society and has been a Drug Addict since her Young Teens.
She was an Abnormality 20 years ago... Something EVERYONE thought, wow, how did that happen...
I am Certain that this Girl in this Story is also involved with Drugs... It's Obvious she's Gang Related.
And I don't Think it's as shocking 20 Years Later...
And that's what the REAL Tragedy is.
peace...