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More Gang Life Q & A -HOMEPAGE
Questions about Gang Life
Tim,
At the time I was hanging with the gang, yes I thought it was fun. Now I‘m
stuck in prison for good and it doesn’t seem fun anymore. A moment of fun
isn’t worth a lifetime of pain, so if you want to have fun, do it with
your family.
Someone who cares
California
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What’s it like being in a gang and what is life during those days?
Sandra
Dear Sandra,
Life in gangs has appeal for many people. A sense of belonging to
something, ideas that you have the protection of may others, and with
many, the easy solution as far as some money by either selling drugs,
doing other crimes, or being taken care of with what you need by the other
members of the gang. These are big attractions that seem great.
No one thinks about doing things for other people and being used to carry
out their personal ideas, going to prison, getting hurt or killed, or
getting your family hurt or killed. These things happen almost all of the
time to people who get in gangs. The only thing is that with some, it
takes a lot longer to happen. Many look at the one guy who is head of a
gang with plenty of friends and money. Eventually, the same thing usually
happens to him. Even when it doesn’t, he needs to be constantly aware that
someone might try to do something to him and his family and friends
because of his position. If there is one person that lives to an old age
peacefully without spending a day in jail but is in a gang, there is a
much better chance of hitting the lottery for a multimillion dollar pay
off than being him.
Girls and women involve with guys in gangs are no better off. The guy you
are with may have a disagreement with someone. If he cannot be gotten to
because he is aware and on guard, his wife or girlfriend and children
might be a target. When a female gets involved with a guy in a gang, she
immediately gets all the bad things the guy might be in for. Being a
target is one of those things. The bad part here is that while the guy
might know, he may never tell the woman, or not even think something can
happen to her. The same things happen when women just do a guy a favor,
like giving another guy a place to sleep for a night, and drive him
somewhere to deliver a car to someone. The guy you give a place to stay as
a favor might have just escaped from prison; the car you drop off might
have drugs, guns, or a body in it. Explanations to the police that you
knew nothing about what was going on never go over good, and get women
one-way tickets to prison.
Remember that when you get involved with a guy in a gang, you sign on for
a relationship with the gang and everything that the guy has coming to
him, even when you do not know what it is. Finding out about what you get
later, is just about impossible to get out of. The bottom line is to ask
yourself, is a relationship worth all of the other baggage you get from it
somewhere down the line, maybe even years later.
I hope you remember to think before you act and know all the pitfalls of
what you might get later. I hope you make the right choices while the
options remain open to you.
Al R.
New Jersey
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I just want to know if the gang showed you more love than your parents?
Why is it that the same excuse also comes up "That's all that was around
where I lived". I don't understand... Lupita
Hey Lupita,
My name is Angel and I'm in a good mood. I just finished writing a good
friend that makes this possible, I mean being able to write this to you.
May God be pleased with her.
My gang showed me love because I did want that, so I got a so-called "homie
love" thing going, but it's nothing like that parent love you have. The
parent love is the bomb stuff. So I guess now my parents show me more true
love. The gang only showed me to be more of a fool and that your homeboys
are not always going to be there for you no matter how much you say you
love them.
I know the same excuses you are talking about and I wish I had an answer
for you but I don't. All I can say is there's something better to life
than this gang bang stuff. I've lost so much. It hit my heart bad. I lost
being myself, my human nature.
Struggle. I say struggle because I like struggle. It's like reaching a
goal.
Thank you - Angel
California
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