Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire What are the root causes of gang violence in the inner city?

Inner cities suffering from poverty and unemployment have always been the source of violence above and beyond the norm. Whether it was Italians or Irish or Polish in New York or Chicago slums in days gone by, or mexicans or blacks in many American cities now, or middle eastern and north african immigrants in slums in France, I think humans just don't do well shoved shoulder to shoulder with too much idle time and too much poverty.

There's insufficient societal infrastructure in place to keep the scum from preying on the weak, and then the gangs rise up.

Nothing racial about it, imho, though there are cultural aspects which may change the degree. Single parent families with no time to spend with children is obviously one, similar to a large number of orphans.