High School Student Beaten Unconscious

Isabel? With a name like that no wonder he needs two other people to help beat one guy.

Fabulous! More gang crime in SB County. Perhaps some more afterschool programs, or maybe a camping trip to the mountains, a nice house or some other perks are in store for them & their families.

How ironic that the article preceding this one is about some NPR presenter coming to SB to offer her "hopes for peace in the Middle East."

Meanwhile...we live in a toilet right here.

This is along the lines of the doctors who run to other countries to give of themselves and their skills to help everybody else, while Americans are literally dying for lack of care in the richest, most technologically advanced nation on earth.

The irony is excruciating.

Let's work for peace in the Middle East, while people right here are dropping like flies in gang violence, either directly or collaterally.

WTH?

Whenever I see the cute little boys of two or three, already sporting the uniform of the shaved head and baggy clothes, and everyone else in the family are obviously affiliated with gangs and the gang lifestyle, it sickens me. Those little lives are being carefully crafted early on to follow in the family business, all their wonderful potential forced through society's cracks by their OWN FAMILIES, their futures ensured as features of yet another news story about yet another gang crime.

When does this stop? When do we stop rewarding and pandering to special interests who have a fortune tied up in promoting victimhood and rage, costing generations of precious children their lives and futures, sacrificed on the altar of political correctness, handwringing, nannyism, rewarding bad parenting with perks, and ignorance? When do these little boys have the same value, and become held to the same standards of behavior as everyone else's little boys?

Four young men's lives (3 attackers, 1 victim)are now irrevocably altered, and not for the better. Where were any of the adults in their lives when they were growing up? Did anyone bother to say "no" and MEAN it, when the attackers first showed the signs of going off the rails? Or were they like the cute little guys I see every day in the store and in restaurants, heads shaved, wearing baggy clothes, running around screeching, breaking things, throwing food, and terrorizing their environment while the adults literally ignore the behavior?

Think about it...it starts somewhere, and rewarding these families with freebies and sympathy clearly does not work; things are getting worse, and more kids are becoming statistics and lurid stories in the news.

Well said, Holly. Salud

Correction to your gang moniker typo: It's CRAPAS, not Carpas.
Trust me, the little punks won't know the difference because they can only read taggerese.

And someone give Holly a hug. She needs one. Desperately. It's a lot of work wielding an emotional blunderbuss to maim three little fly maggots who cling to their Crapas because the social fabric of the family has been so violently torn asunder.

Freebies and sympathy are not the issue here. We ALL get freebies and sympathy. This is a cultural collapse, and one not solely relegated to the racial implications in their surnames.

Violence is pandemic. It starts at the top. It begins with what we as a nation are doing in the false name of peace across the globe. It's the micro acting out the macro. Until we decide as a nation, as sentient global beings, to stop exporting, importing, & supporting violence as the primary and preferred method of dealing with differences, this will continue and escalate indefinitely.

We sell violence, we entertain ourselves with violence, we game with violence, we idolize, adore, and reward violence. We are permeated with it and it excretes onto our streets and ferments in our neighborhoods. There has to be other ways. And there are. However, it will never be completely eradicated. It's in our DNA. Unfortunately, we're hardwired to it. Ask any geneticist or human behaviorist. Seems we're born to be bad.

Now I need a hug. But Holly gets one first.

Draxor: Holly's comments do not contradict your own. You are both right about the problem, and address different aspects of it.

I need a hug Draxor and sixdolphins won't give it to me. Are you my friend? Have you given Holly Fredlund Hunter her hug yet?

OK Draxor...here's your hug:-)

You are saying pretty much the same things I have.

May I add however, that the current models are not working? The gang problem is worse than ever; the programs aren't working..neither is the "get-tough" stuff. We are still treating the surface wounds, without learning the cause of the disease, which is why gangs and the gang mentality is metastasizing at a terrifying rate.

I agree, Draxor, that this is cultural, societal, and serious. However, we have to dig below the surface and the "solutions" that may make us feel good, and find out WHY this cancer keeps recurring.

Look at the root causes. Until we do, the weed is going to keep popping up, and it's going to continue bringing more weeds with it. Cutting a dandelion off at the surface does not get rid of the dandelions on the lawn.

Southern California in particular is a festering sore of social ills, overcrowding, desperation and crime. Citing the weather, beaches and mountains, and thousands of miles of relentless faux-Mediterranean buildings, concrete, cactus, and palm trees as some kind of method of balancing things out is a fool's paradise. You can't polish a t*rd.