The Newark execution murders: I'm sickened & OUTRAGED, and you should be, too

Four college-age kids lined up, forced to kneel, and shot in the head. One somehow lived, though God knows what long-term damage she'll suffer. It's just incomprehensible. My blog from the other day describing MY rosy childhood memories? Well, this horror happened about 3 miles from where I grew up. So close...yet night and day. I understand how people in the ghetto -- as best as I possibly could-- and this wasn't even IN the worst part of Newark -- but I get how they feel isolated, hopeless, NOT CARED ABOUT. And, sadly, it's true to a degree. I know there's a large number of people "in the suburbs"...ok, WELL-TO-DO WHITES...who just shake their heads, say "isn't it awful?" and move on with their lives. Hell, i'm one of them to a degree. Murders in Newark aren't OUR problem. WE don't have to worry. Well, I care a great deal, and I wish I could convey that to, well, inner city blacks in Newark. I know how simplistic and pandering that may sound, but i'm an educated white guy who is outraged and heartbroken by what happens in Newark's largely black streets. The guns, the gangs, the drugs, the complete lack of respect for human life. I mean, I am LIVID. LIVID that kids can't even hang out front in the summer without worrying they may die on the streets and not wake up to see tomorrow. Can you IMAGINE living like that? I have no answers. I'm only one man...with a blog. What the hell COULD I do? Really. I don't mean to paint myself as the Great White Sympathetic Knight, while all other suburbanites are heartless bastards. I just know it makes me sick, outraged, and incredibly sad about the state of our world. WHY are guns so readily available? WHY?!?! This is an epidemic that SHOULD have our nation in an uproar. Jesus Christ, bring the National Guard to Newark's inner city...this is JUST as serious as the riots of '67. The good people NEED to take back the streets from the thugs. I'm rambling, I know. But one final thing...the father of one of the victims -- remarkably composed -- perhaps spoke the greatest truth -- it ALL goes back to GOOD PARENTING. If you're raised right, you won't BECOME a drug-addled, gun-toting gang member. It really IS that simple. Well, then you get into the issue of not EVERYONE being a good parent, don't you? Again, I have no easy answers. I just hope that these 3 latest deaths FINALLY spark SOME kind of I'VE HAD IT UP TO HERE!!! revolution among EVERYBODY in Newark. And that it spreads across the country to other bad areas. Idealistic, you say? Well, the alternative is too depressing. See, I told you i'm actually an optimist. Well, I just wanted to say SOMETHING about this miserably sad situation. Three promising lives...GOOD kids...gone. Killed like animals. I can't really do a damn thing about it, but I wanted to go on the record that it breaks my heart.