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Originally posted by Rudey
Let's stop talking about the hypotheticals...who here has even had a problem with this situation??
It's like saying "would you like to die of a knife wound or a gun shot"? At the end of the day most likely neither of these will happen to you.
-Rudey
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I know a couple of young men who were in gangs. They changed their lives around, went off to college, pledged fraternities, and graduated from college. Both are wonderful people and assets to their organizations.
(Sidebar) To whomever made an indirect reference to my posts about what types of activities gangs involve themselves in: Right, spray painting signs is not a GOOD thing. But, (using the logic that some people in this thread have been using) I'd rather have a FORMER gang member in my chapter who spray painted some signs in her wayward days as a 13 year old THAN have a FORMER gang member who served prison time for shooting someone when they were 13.
Both are in someone's past and occurred during youth, but if we're talking about (what many people alluded to as) threats to safety and integrity, I think the latter COULD (not a definite) be a greater indicater than the former. If people are adamently against gangs, PERIOD, they should think about the wide variety of gangs and gang activities, out there. Most things in life aren't so cut and dry...but, it appears to be to most of you.