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    2 months ago

    I mean gang violence is usually not a grand spectacle event, so it has nothing to do with the text you’re quoted.

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      2 months ago

      Are you serious? There are “icons” from that era known for their violence and “spectacle”.

      Bonnie & Clyde; Baby face Nelson; Al Capone; John Dillenger; Machine Gun Kelly (before his singing career)

      FFS - MACHINE GUN KELLY!

      These people were horrible and killed a lot of non-gang members.

      “Newsreels from the period chronicled the violence. In one from 1931, footage shot in New York shows walls along a city street pockmarked with bullet holes, and the children caught in the crossfire of gang warfare.”