You guys have no clue what any of you are talking about....and the old timers used to say that "all the tough guys were in the graveyard" but that was the life its self in a nutshell because at the end of the day, all you could expect from that life was "here today and gone tomorrow" ....And all of the people that your talking about that were real gangsters and truly believed in the life, came from broken unstable homes and were looking for a replacement family to fill that void and an avenue to release theyre anger and agression and they were able to every time they shot someone in the face or snapped a neck or broke an arm or punched theyre girlfriend in the face as hard as they could because she was cheating on him because he was never home and was out fucking someone else and wanted to get him back etc etc and they came up hard... Its very simple "hard times make hard people".. ALL OF THE GANGSTERS THAT WERE REAL GANGSTERS they came up robbing and stealing and getting in gang fights as kids...and stayed tough guys who would use theyre hands if neccessary...THIS ISNT THE BOARD ROOM...ITS THE STREET LIFE..ITS LIFE ON THE STREETS...GOING TO PRISON AND FIGHTING FOR YOURS IS WHAT THE LIFE IS ALL ABOUT AND WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT.....NONE OF THESE WANNABEE GANGSTERS WOULD BE MAKING MILLIONS WITHOUT THE GUNS AND FISTS BEHIND THEM...THEY ALL CAME UP FIGHTING AND SHOOTING AND LIVED LIFE THAT WAY...ALL OF THEM FROM JOHN GOTTI TO NICKY COROZZO TO TONY ACCARDO..UNLESS YOU WERE PRIVLEGED CAUSE OF DADDY OR OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS AND THEN YOU WERE A BITCH THAT COULDNT STAND ON YOUR OWN WITHOUT YOUR FAMILY.........YOUR TALKING ABOUT GUYS WHO WOULD COMPLEMENT TEENAGERS WHO WENT OUT AND PROVED THAT THEY COULD MURDER SOMEONE...TONY ACCARDO AND JOEY AUIPPA RESPECTED TOUGH GUYS..THATS WHY JOEY LOMBARDO,TONY SPILOTRO AND VINNY THE SAINT WERE THEYRE GUYS..CAUSE THEY CAME UP HARD FROM "THE PATCH" ,THE GUYS THAT MADE THAT LIFE WHAT IT WAS CAME FROM ABJECT POVERTY..CAME FROM NOTHING AND HAD TO RAPE,ROB AND PILLAGE TO GET AHEAD..THATS WHAT BEING A GANGSTER IS..HAVING A LIMITED EDUCATION AND STEALING AND KILLING AND GRABBING WITH BOTH HANDS...NOT DECIDING BETWEEN GANGSTER AND BEING A DOCTOR....... MAFIA IS ALOT CLOSER TO GANGBANGERS THAN YOU GUYS THINK AND ALWAYS WERE...THEY WERE JUST MORE ORGANIZED,HAD THE UNIONS AND WERE GREAT AT "SPIN" IE "FAMILY NOT A GANG" "HONOR NOT MURDER" " DO THE RIGHT THING,NOT EXTORTION" ETC ETC AND THEY HAD THE BEST PR BECAUSE THE MEDIA FAWNED OVER THEM BECAUSE THEY WERE WHITE UNLIKE THE OTHER CREWS AND THATS THE TRUTH