This 1000%. You are who you surround yourself with. I lived in rougher areas for a time and I never got involved in gun/gang violence. Now I did have friends who were involved in that life but I chose when to hang with them and when to stay in the house. As long as you know where to be, it really is a non-issue.
Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare. Proverbs 13:20

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