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  • Story Listed as: True Life For Adults
  • Theme: Mystery
  • Subject: Life Experience
  • Published: 05/30/2012

Put Down THE Gun

By Rashnie White
Born 1997, M, from Clarendon, Jamaica
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Put Down THE Gun

Based on a true life story of what i saw back when i was in Jamaica in a place called Clarendon where you see things like this happen... a man gets shot by gun man or police.

This crime and violence all started when Tommy gave his son a gun. That's when the son made his friend influence him to go and buy some bullets.

That's when the men that they were going to buy the bullets from take the gun from him and then started to fire it at them. So they ran home and told his dad. That's when his dad got into his car with all of his friends to go and defend his son and get the gun. That is when the war all started back in 2009.

So the community split apart into two gangs, namely east and west sides. That's when the big conflict started. None of the men could go on either side unless they were going to kill a gang member or an informer.

Just because of the one gun both sides started to kill each other and innocent people also. For the past few years many people have passed away. Since the war started some of the people have moved away but the problem still continues.

The police have made several arrests and several killings, but still the war continues.

Based and what you have read in this short story my advice is that you can't live with taking up gun or badness because it is easy to take up but hard to put down.

Put Down THE Gun(Rashnie White) Based on a true life story of what i saw back when i was in Jamaica in a place called Clarendon where you see things like this happen... a man gets shot by gun man or police.

This crime and violence all started when Tommy gave his son a gun. That's when the son made his friend influence him to go and buy some bullets.

That's when the men that they were going to buy the bullets from take the gun from him and then started to fire it at them. So they ran home and told his dad. That's when his dad got into his car with all of his friends to go and defend his son and get the gun. That is when the war all started back in 2009.

So the community split apart into two gangs, namely east and west sides. That's when the big conflict started. None of the men could go on either side unless they were going to kill a gang member or an informer.

Just because of the one gun both sides started to kill each other and innocent people also. For the past few years many people have passed away. Since the war started some of the people have moved away but the problem still continues.

The police have made several arrests and several killings, but still the war continues.

Based and what you have read in this short story my advice is that you can't live with taking up gun or badness because it is easy to take up but hard to put down.

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