T&T: When will the violence end?

Whether articulated, as it was in some quarters, or silently asked as in others, this is the question Trinidadians asked as they were forced to confront, over the last 72 hours, the murderous violence in their midst.
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If anything in Trinidad and, indeed, elsewhere, killings have taken an even darker turn with more and more of them seemingly having neither rhyme nor reason, such as the infantile argument that led to the death of two brothers in Cocorite, their weeping mother protesting:

"If you know how that hurting me. They kill my children for nothing."

For nothing, indeed, except in the minds of a group of mainly young people for whom the slightest infraction, either in thought or in deed, has to be met by the ultimate penalty, revenge more often than not exacted out of the barrel of a gun.
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In Trinidad, in fact, it seems that most of the illegal guns are ending up in the hands of either teenagers or people in their "twenties", a generation growing up fascinated by the power that is thus placed in their hands, the particular psychology still to be properly probed, late twentieth century phenomenon that it happens to be.

The gun problem can be traced back to the cocaine trade and to the Jamaat Al Muslimeen and their illegal arming of the nation's youth leading up to the attempted coup of 1990. Toss in to the mix, the youths' adoption of American gangsta-rap culture and its glorification of the worst aspects of American life, and you've got problem. Nevertheless, the problem is with the invidivual who chooses to kill.