why do you think gang violence has spread so much?

It's only natural that there would be violence. The Bloods are like a nation within a nation; and nations fight wars - Usually over Territory, Commerce, and/or Social Dominance. These are three big issues and each of these things affects the other.

Since generally people don’t give away turf, or money, or customers for drugs, and since they generally don’t like to be dominated or abused by others – in this case other gangs, violence breaks out.

Bloods are actually associated with a much larger gang nation group called the people. Conversely, the cripts are in the folk nation. Bloods are often called Piru or Pirus gangs. This is because the original blood gang in Los Angeles was called the Piru's. Gangs have been known to join nation sets due to the need to ally against more powerful gangs. Nation sets also allow for drug trafficking and distribution. In addition, gang nations are important in prisons because prisoner's come from a vareity of cities and gangs. This allows individual gang members to be allied in prison and form gangs without dishonoring their local gang. The People nation, wear everything to the left and use the 5 pointed islamic star. For information regarding gang nations: [http://www.gang-busters.com/dress%5Chtml%5Cfolks_and_people.aspx Gang nation

Okay, I tried to include most of this in the main article.--Polyparadigm 01:53, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Your site is not overly helpful. It is hard to navigate, and not very inclusive. I would not say it is integral to this topic.-Observator

Above, references are made to 'Pirus', 'Piru' and 'Piru's'. Which is the correct term? Jenks 07:48, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The final sentence doesn't make sense to me

The Bloods' use of red was originally inspired because the Pirus already had red so the other blood gangs like Brims, Bounty Hunters and other gangs wore red and called themselves Bloods.

'...originally inspired...'. Does that mean there is now another reason for the red? Or should it just read '...was inspired...'?

Why was red inspired by the Pirus? Were the Pirus the founders of the Bloods? Did other gangs join the Pirus and then the Pirus renamed themselves the Bloods? Jenks 07:48, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Good question, the sentence doesn't make sense

User:tachante 18:55GMT 24 Jun 2005