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We are having gang problems in the U.S. Murder state in the brg. U.S cities like Los Angeles have a lot of gangs. America has more deaths ( because of gangs and murders). People in gang problems get murdered most in the U.S because of fights or drugs. If we didn’t have any kind of gangs than their would be less deaths in the U.S.

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