Le Moor

I do not for one moment disagree that parents should take responsibility for their own children, but I do think we need to be realistic and accept that a certain number of parents will be either unwilling or unable to provide the 'appropriate' level of guidance, support, love, education (and I don't mean school-learnings) etc for their children to minimise the probability of them falling into the 'gun culture' or criminal lifestyle.

This being the case, who is responsible then? In my view, as unfair as it may seem, the whole community has to take some level of responsibility for those youths before they are lost. After all, we can turn our backs on these youths as not our problem, since some of them do in fact have parents, but it could be anyone's child, including those who did 'get it right' who becomes an victim (innocent or otherwise) of the situation the community did not try to take control of. There isn't time to wait for the government to fix things, if indeed they ever can or will.