JW - I'm sure stolen registered guns have been used in crimes, but that use is insignificant compared to imported and illegal guns.
off topic - did you grow up in the Jane and Trethewey area, and is that your "porn" name
Ive lived all over TO, I cant really say I grew up anywhere in particular cuz I moved around ALOT. But it gave me a unique opportunity to gain a perspective on life that not too many experience. I didnt have a conventional upbringing, my parents were around(but they were never togerther), but I was raised by my grandparents, its confusing, I know, try being me. Ive known alot of people living the gangster life in my day, La familia, Latin Browns, LA boys, La Cruz, Tiny Toons, Boyz n Blue, VR Trooperz, not that I was involved personally with these gangs, but living amongst them long enough you get to know the players. I got alot of respect wherever I went cuz people who knew me knew I wasnt about being a gangster, but just about being a person they knew from around the way. Alot of them had no business pretending to be something they were not, because later on you come to find out some of these "gangsters" dont live anywhere near the ghetto! They get 100 dollar weekly allowances and go spend it on x, coke, dope and guns. I know people arent gonna want to hear this, but I say it so u are aware and dont pretend that this couldnt happen to your kids.
There are kids out there who have both parents who love them and still have all day coke habits. I went to Sir Wilfred Laurier for a time in Guildwood, I cant begin to tell you how many times I went to house parties near Catalina drive (sorry, ppl familiar with the neighbourhood can tell u this is a pretty well to do area) and alot of these kids are doin rails!! Parents? Idk, some gone on vacations and leave the house to the kids, some were even leaving money for the kids to get "party favors", all i know is, i saw some pretty rich kids hitting alot heavier **** than I ever saw living in the ghetto in my day. I run into a few now and then, u know what theyre doin, still living off their rich parents cuz they bought them nice condos and snorting even more coke! This can be your kids. The suburbs are being used for the production of narcotics, the ghetto is a base for city redistribution back to those same rich and poor kids in the hallways at school. Its a perpetual machine that just keeps running itself.
My wife grew up at 3171 Eglinton and Markham rd., shes now a mortgage analyst working at first canadian. We once tried to figure out what it was that made us want nothing but to get the hell away from the places we lived, the only answer we could come up with was this. Some people take adversity, and use it as an excuse to give up and turn to easy ways out like drugs or crime, or a crutch to say"Oh the world effed me over, so it owes me something"and sit around doin nothing waiting for the universe to give em a break. Others will take it and use it as motivation to want something better. My father and my mom werent always there with me, but I know they tried their best to be there for me. They made their mistakes and karma gave them what they'd been giving. I believe theyve made this realization and theyve been trying to make up for it so I give em a break. They werent the greatest of parents at times, but nor was I anything close to the perfect son. I resented them for not being together, I resented the people they chose to be with, I even resented the fact that both of them went on to have families and have kids with other people and chose to stay with the parents of their other kids and left me feeling alone in a room of family. But that to some can be a powerful motivator, and I always said I would never allow myself to make a mistake of having a child and not being in his life 24/7, or married to a woman I didnt want to devote my entire life to. Alot of the motivation I had is lost on kids that have both parents and everything laid out for them. Some parents really believe just because both of them are there after school and you have meals to eat and a PS3 that there parenting role is complete. Kids need support, but they also need some sort of adversity and a dash of hardship to overcome and realize their potential. Just because you have the money to give your kid their own car doesnt mean you should just hand them the keys, let your kids work for it! Let them think you had to spend every last cent you had to get it, dont ever let them realize you got enough money to make their wishes happen on a whim. Its a hard balance cuz as parents you naturally want your child to want for nothing, but its the want that drives most people. It has to be properly nurtured to send you child in the right direction in life, to make them want to be good citizens, not do drugs and contribute to the local crime economy.
All I can say, as a 33 year old product of the ghetto, not all of us are out there trying to kill everything that moves, some of us want exactly what middle and upper class people want, just to be better off and have a piece of something to call our own, and we're doing it everyday more and more, its just that ghetto people working hard trying to rub to pennies together doesnt make for a riveting news story. Gangsters want something to call their own too, its just that you have it, they dont, theyre armed, youre not. All gangsters know that, just ask the Yakuza, the Mafia, the Taliban, Tamil Tigers, the IRA, the Russian grupperovka, the HA, the Vagabonds, the Bandidos, or the Bloods and Crips.
Lmao, porn? Not with my herniated back, it'd be like watchin a sex tape of Jerry Stiller! :lmao:I got the name from Eddie Murphy's 3rd best movie IMO, Beverly Hills Cop 2(2.Coming to America, 1.Trading Places, Jamie Lee Curtis.....wow is all i can say)[video=youtube;JCnZaM2qKYE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCnZaM2qKYE[/video] Sorry it took so long to holler back, I had this all typed out and forgot to "post quick reply" and sorry if I wrote a whole novel here.
It was a brave of you to even tell us you are TPS knowing how much most on this site can't stand cops.
