[daveT]

What do you think about the military recruitment in inner city schools. Why are they doing it, and why aren't they doing it in regular schools? Isn't this a form of social cleansing?

Gangs are effective for the definition of their label. Alone, a gang member is usually nothing to be afraid of, and usually nothing that is hard to fight. It is unlikely that you have fighting skills when you are used to grabbing five friends and jumping on one person. A little chump mouthing off at a drill instructor is probably going to be very tired at the end of the day. Military seems to be showing who the Alpha is. Few gang members are Alpha, they are used to following.

It seems like many of the social reform programs are about taking out that aggression and using it, sometimes in violent matters. Boxing and Crunking being two examples.

Milo, your stuff is interesting as well. How large of a problem is it when it is a small number of people never learn? I agree that there is little want to have these kids learning how to shoot correctly running around on the street.