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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah

Gang violence completely eclipses 9/11, with more than 10xs the deaths each year. Saying this is not a crisis is rubbing salt in the wounds of the family and friends of these kids who are killed each year. You should see their attitude every time some kid shoots up a suburban school, it is an offense to them that the news makes such a big deal of it when this is their every day experience and no one appears to care. Every year I have taught in Brooklyn some kid from our school has been killed in this kind of violence (either a kid going to our school or a kid directly related to one of our kids). So I am glad it is not a crisis for you, but that is a very inconsiderate attitude for the 1 million + people who have lost someone in the last 6 or 7 years.

(BTW there is a historical marker for the house Donald Trump grew up in within a block or two of this school, so it is very likely that Trump is well aware of what is happening in this neighborhood)

This really hit home for me when I heard that one of my students had lost his cousin to one of these gang shootings. So I went to him and as he talked I realized he was talking about someone else (the kid I had heard of played basketball) so I questioned him about it and then realized he had lost two cousins to gang shootings, not one.

Also, for those of you who are not aware, sneakers that are thrown over a power line are a tribute to a kid who was killed. If you see those hanging from a power line know that a kid in that neighborhood was killed.

Unless you can demonstrate how building a wall on the US southern border is going to solve your neighborhood crime problem, you have made a wildly spurious leap in logic. Thanks for demonstrating how Trump wins support by evoking people's xenophobic fantasies.