no, they just develop and foster the environment which creates the crime. it's not like it's rocket science, remove a decent education and well paying jobs, while pushing in cheap guns and drugs -- what do you think is going to happen?
i don't conflate the sale of illegal narcotics with possessing an illegal firearm, believing the former to be a necessity of survival for many who are capable of doing so without getting caught. owning an illegal firearm that will more than often be used for murder is not the same, in my eyes, hence my differing opinions of the penalties that should be incurred for the two crimes.
but that aside, i no longer agree that the environment is to shoulder full blame for someone possessing an illegal firearm with the intent to use it maliciously. 9/10 people carrying illegal burners in the hood do so with the intent to kill someone. that's just an unequivocal fact. they're not holding them to fire off warning shots. they're not strapped to protect their mom from a burglar. they're carrying because they want to be able to shoot someone who "disrespects" them, someone who stepped into their "turf," or any number of other absurd reasons to kill someone. and i know of many black men and women who grew up in the very environment you speak of and went on to do great things in their lives - become lawyers, doctors, engineers. it wasn't easy, no, but they did it.
so, miss me with all this cliched "it's the environment" talk. that's bullshyt. it's laziness. it's an indifference to human life. more critically, it's an indifference black life because they view black people as less than whites. they view themselves as less and treat their surrounding brothers and sisters just the same. you're no different than
@kp404 you want to excuse self-hate and deflect attention away to bogeymen like "environment," "white people," and other shyt that absolves the actual culprits - black men and women - from taking responsibility for their actions.