Once again I've received that dreaded phone call another friend of mine DEAD. So how many does that make it for the year 2 people quite close to me dead in the space of 3 monthsboth under 30,both pointless murders as no one deserves to die. I'm fed up of it I'm only 18 and can use both hands and maybe include my feet to count young black men in my local vicinity that have died under the strength of a bullet and the weakness of the killer. But why I have to ask myself are all the crimes committed by another fellow black man ?

Cutie.C: First can i pass on my condolence at the the recent loss of a friend, people dying needlessly at such a young age is a scandal...

That said I must take issue with you labelling this a Black on black crime, just because it is convienetly called this in the media, does not make this an accurate way to view these occurances. In my view this is a gun crime, committed by criminals that claimed yet another black life, we should stop segregating this type of crime or ring fencing it so that it appears only idiot black men let off gun..

We only have to look at the paper today to see a clear example of the contradiction i speak of, two white boys shooting a shop keeper in the act of commiting a crime, was this white on white or just simply a robbery via the use of a gun..My point here is that criminal don't specifically target their victims on the basis of colour, they target anyone or anything they percieve as a threat to them..

What can we do attack gun crime, for me top of the list banned the sale of replica guns, ban them tommorrow. Target those criminals who convert these guns for lethal use, give these arseholes life meaning life for simply being involved in the distribution of illegal guns, ie attack the supply of weapons and bullets..

If you're going to employ stop and search via the means of intelligent policing, why oh why aren't the police working with music venues to trap and jail arsehole like the one last night who jumped on stage of the Brixton Academy with a gun.. What is the point of Random search if you don't use it in places like this.. BTW i'm not even a fan of this tactic..but it seems to be that idiots like this target events for their madness, why isn't the police acting on this?

But why I have to ask myself are all the crimes committed by another fellow black man ?

Simple answer really... just because he is black does not mean he wont hesitate to rape you, rob, you shoot you or stab you. You are obviously still under the illusion that we are all 'bruddas and sistas' lol what a joke. white people kill white people, black peopel kill black people, white people kill black people, black kill white. It doesnt matter what skin colour they are, if you wanna kill someone you dont care what their colour. That shit that white are more likely to kill white and black, black is not true.

You sound like you cannot beleive a black man has commited a crime let alone killed another black person.

I am sorry for your loss and i hope you find the strenght to keep your head above the water.

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The media pick up on the black against black war because it IS happening im afraid to say....Of course there is media coverage of white crime and it IS covered in the press. Iactually read more about white crime whether its in the local paper or in the national paper. But we have to accept that there is an increasing 'Gangsta style' crime thing goin on where black kids with guns are cool. Remember those girls blown away in a gangsta style uzi drive by?

Are we no better that the black americans? We are British and we must stand up and fight the increasing poularity of the gansta gun culture... or we will be no better than dem...

I agree with u all but rather than callin this black on black crime ur r right i should have callled the topic rising gun culture in our youth black white and asian but what im tryin to say is on this website we r a black community so I am going to talk about how its affecting our blackpeople