Chicago Hip-Hop Murders and the Media Blackout (rap threads on SS-R)

good thing watching The Wire prepared me for what this article says:





http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/May-2014/Chicago-crime-rates/
 
Sadly, social-media-fuelled slayings not restricted to the US. I recall a similar story about a fatal stabbing in London a couple of years back.





It's depressing stuff, but as usual, the comments section always offers some kind of remedy for the mood of the article:





in Romania people are much more poor, but we don't have guns... so we try to study and work for money... instead of killing eachother.. :| how come in a country like mine, that has the reputation of a primitive country, there are less gangs? i think it's because we aren't allowed to have guns, like in america.





Also drugs are not related to gangs, gangs in my country usually deal with beggars, prostitution or human trafficking. drug dealers are peaceful people. it's just an idea, I'm willing to debate on this - I have never, ever seen a weapon shop in my country. If you have a hunting license you can buy a gun online or from Germany





And the gangs in my country don't even use guns, usually they have knifes, swords, axes or baseball bats...





Oh, and [Romanian] rappers usually rap about politics and social issues, about philosophy, humour... never about gangs and guns and cars and bitches and chains..





okay maybe sometimes they rap about bitches...




This is comedy. I don't know about you, but I'd probably shit my pants 10X faster facing a gang of dudes wielding axes than guns o_0