By Sandrea:- MY GRIPE
The number of young people that has died as a result of gun shot wounds, in Jamaica, is becoming an epidemic.
In particular gang members, who the authority seems to be once and for all, aggressively seeking out and either arresting or they die following a shoot-out with the police. Ricardo Wynter, an alleged gang member was gunned down following his engagement with the security forces.
When are young people going to realise that if you live by guns, then you will die by guns. It does not take too much intelligence to realise that no matter how clever these would-be gang members, believe they are, the methods of terrorising citizens will eventually be their down-fall and many are not even living to age 30.
What is wrong with these individuals? Do they honestly belief that their criminal activities would not catch up with them. They seems to be living a delusional life in that they some how believe they are invincible. The sad reality however, is that another young man laid dead in the morgue, and another set of parents have to be burying their child.
Young criminals do not seems to understand the norm, parents are not suppose to bury their children, especially those that die as a direct result of criminal activities which have shorten their lives.
Being in a gang may appear to be cool, but the harsh reality of this is that if you are associated with a gang, take part in gang related activities then you are going to die.
If, as alleged by the Jamaican police, Wynter was wanted in connection to a number of murders, then he should have know that, whatever you do in this life will eventually come back to haunt you. The families he has devastated, following his alleged killing spree, cannot have their loved ones back and now he has paid the ultimate price – is life has been extinguished at such a young age.
These so-called modern day young people who believe that the only way that they can exist and get rich quick is to undertake drug running, contract killing should understand that they may flourish for a short time, but their life style is not long-term, like certain items in a supermarket, they have a very short shelf life and they should be aware of these facts, when they decide to take up a life of crime.
Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, has not being convicted of any crime and therefore it would not be fair to call him a criminal, however, irrespective of that, today he his languishing in a federal prison, awaiting trial for drugs and gun running charges, this is somebody with financial means. If these charges proved to be correct then it just goes to show that you can only escape the long-arm of the law for so long, before it pull you in.
Jamaican, young men, who are today involve in criminal activities needs to take a hard look at themselves, change their attitudes or else there are going to be a lot more of them ending up on a slob in the morgue, just like Ricardo Wynter, and this is a sad affair.
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