You are literally talking about thousands of guys, and well over one hundred of years of history!
There are exceptions to every 'rule' in the book, and to every facet or conversation in life. We all know that. And it's no different with this conversation.
Have there been instances where innocents have been killed, whether by accident, or straight out intentionally? You bet there have been!
But that doesn't make it right. Nor does it mean that that type of behavior was accepted by the overall masses. Were the so-called rules broken? Of course. Clearly they were!
But when put into proper context, and taken in totality and in relation to the sheer 'number' of guys in the life, in comparison to the number of 'broken' rule instances where an innocent was victimized. I think the percentages speak for themselves.
There are always going to be rule breakers, and guys who will skirt the rules, regardless of whether its in the upper-world, or underworld. But I think despite the very nature of that life, and participants being rule 'breakers' to begin with. by and large few wives, sons, daughters, fathers, mothers, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc, etc., (who were NOT in the life), were ever 'hurt' as the phrase goes.
The Chiodo's of the world are far and few between, in comparison to the volume of people in the life, and the daily incidents that take place. Anybody with common sense can see that.
Gaspipe Casso, Vic Amuso, and the few others who have stooped to that level in history were clearly off their rockers!
The average street guy wouldn't do that because then it would be a' free for all' against all relatives, of all people. Their relatives also. Thats why that rule was put in place back in the day to begin with.
They should have whacked Casso from the get-go, it would have saved a lot of people a lot of heartaches. Casso, and others with his mindset are animals, plain and simple!
So you think around 30 innocent people that were killed by the mob between the 70s-90s is a small number..you think that doesn’t make it a common practice..what would the society at large number be..when the majority of your membership are sociopaths it shouldn’t come as a surprise that a much higher percentage of the “mob population†was involved in killing innocents, had rape convictions and trafficked in drugs, children and women...there not a microcosm of society..less than 1% of the population are “sociopaths†I would say atleast 60% of the Made members in the heyday were sociopaths..not to mention what percentage were convicted rapists... Whatever the exact percentages were they were much much higher than the society at large...
