So more or less it's no different that what they say to young inner city kids when they get involved with gangbangin'...two ways out death and prison.
That's not true, actually. It's become a common intervention line, but the statistics simply don't back it up. A very small percentage of gang members get murdered, and the percentage which end up serving long term prison terms is well below half. Most gang members just get old while being unemployable, are forced by economic conditions to move away from fellow gang members, and just end up burnt out and on some kind of assistance, either parents, a spouse/partner with a decent job, public assistance, etc. Some get lucky enough to end up in decent jobs themselves. Whatever the case, most do not die or go to prison. And the blood in blood out oath is unenforced for the most part once gang members are into their 30s.
