Jack Royer reports on the efforts to crack down on teen gun violence

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  1. 1. Parents aren't children's only influence. Some children are just hard-headed. It doesn't matter the race, color or creed.

    2. What's up with all the blame it on black and brown people remarks?
    Y'all will be SURPRISED what the system withholds from the media! I rebuke all hatred, discriminatory comments, arrogance and evil by God's Spirit and I don't care who don't like it. Y'all need to look at ya'll's hateful selves in the mirror, because ya'll might be the reason the children are pulling the triggers! Stop the hatred and learn how to love.

  8. Just matter of time before they kill. The pattern is set for them. Some races are more reactive and violent the facts are in. When race is not mentioned we know. Show the faces so people can watch out for them in future, give us a chance to live.

  9. You are not going to get them on the right path, because they have already strayed off of it. The need to be held accountable for their actions and the parents also need to be held accountable for letting them get this far out of line. I would almost bet anything that most of the kids are out and there parents if they have any not in jail already don't know where they are and what time they come home. So put the blame where it really belongs, on the parents. Come on 13 years old and gang related? Someone isn't doing their job for these kids. Wakeup Tampa before you become another Chicago, Detroit, or Baltimore and rurin this state. Same with all you other Cities.

  10. idk why everyone keeps blaming the kids when this stuff happens. They can only do what we provide them. Afterschool programs, clubs, community involvement, youth events – give kids something to do that they actually want to do. Show that, as a community, you care about them. Their interests, their needs, their space.

    If you don't invest in the youth, someone else will.

    Putting it on police to fix things is a terrible idea – always has been and will continue to be. If there wasn't a gun involved in your situation, when you call the police, now there is. Find another way.

    It's why SROs are a terrible idea too – turn everyday school infractions into arrests. Ever see a full grown man hip-toss a middle school kid onto concrete? Ever watch a SRO spray a crowd of kids with dispersant to get to a fight – as in he's spraying children who aren't fighting?

    Those "no phones" rules aren't there to protect your kids. Cops don't like cameras anywhere.

    Anyways, enjoy the casual racism in the comments along with smattering of common tropes. "like on like crime", "bad parents", bla bla bla

  13. Yes it's the kids and hold them accountable for there actions but it is a parenting problem also .. hold them accountable to there are less father's in the house hold and mom gots 15 kids and a few teenagers she can't control so they are left to the streets to take care of them selves and stay house to house and do what they want to

  18. This is a generational crisis, committed by families, keeping their loved ones out of church, due to their own personal beliefs…The church was invented to keep people from behaving badly at a young age, in order to allow them to make better decisions until their brains were fully developed enough to make smart decisions on their own. This is how Europe defended themselves from the Mongols of Asia. Parent's should be well aware of this routine by now.

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