What has America come to? In today's world there are a lot of killings, robberies, rapes, and other crimes committed everyday. In the documentary, Bowling for Columbine, It showed two adolescent men go on a killing spree in their high school. Besides showing the footage of the two men going on this rampage, the movie showed how easy it was to buy bullets, how African American men are stereotyped to commit a murder every time a killing is heard on the news. In the movie, it also showed how black women and men have to travel at least one to two hours to go to work everyday.
Why do these men and women have to travel this far of a distance to work everyday? This people are on welfare traveling these great distances trying to provide for their families. Leave at five or six in the morning and don't come back until later on in the night. That is not right. These people go to work in fancy, expensive restaurants, five star hotels, and even the malls to make minimum wage. Minimum wage, in one's opinion, should be for teens starting out in the work force. Some people have to work two jobs in order to provide for themselves and their families. Minimum wage is just not enough to keep a roof over someone's head, keep the utilities up and running and keep food in the refrigerator. .
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Why does America have a higher killing rate than other countries in the world? Some of the other countries killing rates are in the teens, double digits, in the hundreds, maybe in the thousands. But when you look at America's homicide rate, you are looking at a rate of ten-thousand to twenty-thousand killings a year. Canada has just as much guns as we do, but their crime rate is really low. Why doesn't Canada have high killing rate like we do? They have gun control, but maybe they have people control also. That is what America needs now is people control. You can't blame the music that people listen to, you can blame the parents, and you can't blame the video games.