Somethings will never change?

As the days and weeks pass by, I am all of a sudden finding my self caught in the middle of what is a town problem. Heck! it's not even my own neighborhood that I personally reside in yet I find myself brainstorming profusely as if I am solving a rigorous algebraic equation.

What to do? What can be done? And what is there to be done so that youth and gang violence can be put into a halt? Maybe I underestimated the job of a reporter, and undermined that the role is in fact challenging.
The closer my deadline approaches, the more I am beginning to get the impression that those people in office are just 'too busy' to care. They don't care about these social issues that we all have. But then, that's a wrong assumption to make because they wouldn't have ran for office if they didn't care right? Their whole job is to care and to be the difference maker, but where is the love? Where is the difference?

A friend of mine read my latest blog about evolving and being involved and he made a very good point. A point that hit close to home. He said, "Somethings will never change." He explained to me how some things are just that. "It is what it is." He pointed out that if they do in fact spend some revenue for after school youth activities, safe places, etc for the young at risk people of BV/HP, are they going to really go? Sure some of them might go, but what about the other half? - A very valid point. Who's to say that kids will go and participate at the programs that I have been screaming my head off about? Maybe with some parental involvement? But what if they are a child of a single parent who holds two jobs? They're obviously too busy and too tired to notice or supervise what their children are getting themselves into.

So now were back to square one. I have to go back and re-think and re-evaluate. What can we do as a community to help stop the rise in youth violence? What is making these children crazy?
I really wish that some lawmakers will get back to me, maybe we can brainstorm together. Afterall two heads are better than one right?
Maybe the change has to come from within. Perhaps we should print a big mural of Mahatma Ghandi's quote, "Be the change you want to see in the world." But if we don't want to change then, well, maybe that is just the way it is. Somethings are destined not to change. After all us Americans thrive on drama, violence and suspense. Things will never be the same.