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Article Response by Shay


Attacks on the Homeless Rise, With Youths Mostly to Blame

Many Homeless people sleep on the streets every night, and they call the streets home, they faced things in life that brought them into this situation. We cant blame them for being homeless, it wasn’t their decision, no one wants to live like this, But most people don’t understand and crucify them.
People instead of helping them, just walk away and pretend they didn’t see who were sleeping on the street, and that’s not the worse thing people do, they treat homeless like they are not humans. Some of them hurt and kill homeless without thinking they are people just like us.
Warren Messner was 15 years old when he stabbed a homeless to death with a group of friends. Now he is facing 22 years in prison, he knows was stupid what he had done and he regret so much, other youth are in prison for the same reason and all of them regret. I think we can call this a stupid unthinkable crime, committed by young people who has no sense of what they are doing.
In America homeless being hurt by teenager happen all the time. There are many cases of young guys and girls messing with homeless, it starts joking, punching and than without any way to defend they die. It is very sad because those young teenager will lose their lives also, having to face prison for committing a crime which started as such a stupid joke.
Who to blame in those situation? Young teenager at the age 10 they don’t know what they are doing, well parents should have taught them how to treat others better. Schools should teach them that there are other people out there that deserve to be respect even if we are In a situation better than them and instead of abandoning and hurting them people should help.

Attacks are increasing every year, and most of them are in Florida. Schools are creating programs to keep students informed of how it is life for homeless, to teach them homeless are humans just like us, there is no difference between us and not having a house can happen with anyone.
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Cite:
Attacks on the Homeless Rise, With Youths Mostly to Blame
By AMY GREEN
Published: February 15, 2008

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