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In America, 22 youth are killed every day because of gun violence. A recent sixteen-year-old victim of gun violence made it abundantly clear about the escalation of gun violence, "After COVID, things have become more ruthless." In today's local youth culture, things have become ruthless and violent. Kids engage in acts of violence without realizing the severity of their actions, especially assaults with a deadly weapon. Their mental capacity to digest standard information at this stage of their lives is limited to their environmental surroundings. The enormity of gun violence produced bewildered kids acting rationally from their perspective. For example, recently, we heard how ill-equipped our youth are to deal with violent encounters. Out of youth ignorance, a youth gunshot victim was transported to an urgent care facility when the hospital was much closer. Why did these kids go to an urgent care facility? Because their social position is interacting with their environmental setting produced in their mind a reasonable solution to handling a gunshot victim. Their socialization process is adapting to what is considered normal behavior. They don't understand that health disparities, unequal access to medical care, and black families treat urgent care facilities as their primary health providers. This volume of integration that must be corrected gives kids an opportunity to understand all elements that are not favorable in creating sound and safe solutions.