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Gangs

Introduction

I. -A Los Angeles family takes a wrong turn into gang territory and is fired
upon. A 3-year-old is killed and her 2-year-old brother wounded.

-A Chinese immigrant in Brooklyn is kidnapped by a Chinatown gang which
demands ransom payments from her family. She is murdered when the family fails to pay.

-Two FBI agents and a police sergeant are murdered inside the Washington,
D.C. police headquarters by a gang member.

-A Pittsburgh police sergeant walking home with his daughter is killed with
his own gun after he stops and confronts a gang spraying graffiti on a street.

II. Resolved : that the Federal Government should pass laws to prevent the
development gang related youth violence.

Definitions-

1. Development: as defined in Websters Dictionary is "to make more
elaborate; to enlarge"

2. Gang: as defined in Websters is "A group of persons who are organized
and work together or socialize regularly; a group of adolescent hoodlums......

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