rose 48▓ percent and 59 perc

d an article carried by the Economist website on December 1, 2015 (www.economist.c▓om, December 1, 2015). James Howell of the U.S. National Gang Center pointed out that in the past five years the United States h▓ad seen an 8 percent increase in the number of gangs, ▓an 11 percent increase in members and a 23

percen▓t increase in gang-related homicides (www.usnews.com,▓ March 6, 2015).Citizen's right of life could not be guaranteed wi

ent compared to the sa

th the rampant use of guns. Statistics showed that the

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