# When you hear on the news: gang member kill rival gangster?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 30, 2010, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-hear-on-the-news-gang-member-kill-rival-gangster/548557 "2010-07-30T06:29:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![palacheck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a88e57/32.png) [@palacheck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palacheck)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2010, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-hear-on-the-news-gang-member-kill-rival-gangster/548557/21 "2010-07-31T20:43:19Z")

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Don’t really care all that much. I do feel some sympathy for some poor idiot in a street gang that gets shot over a few rocks of crack. I don’t feel sympathy for some mobster that gets killed for shaking down a rival group’s construction company.

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**Author:** ![toofs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@toofs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toofs)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2010, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-hear-on-the-news-gang-member-kill-rival-gangster/548557/22 "2010-08-01T00:29:31Z")

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My first reaction is usually “wow, they actually shot their intended target instead of a kid in the background who next year is attending Harvard on a scholarship.”

Or a three year old in a stroller a block away.

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