What is a goon? so, there are many definitions of what a goon is, and I will add one more you see to me a goon is someone who will do anything at any time they hang out in the neighborhoods looking for opportunities to take advantage of someone who is caught slipping or caught off guard for those that are not familiar with the streets we see them every day looking, watching, waiting on the opportunity to inflict some serious distress on somebody why does this happen? what could have caused this? there is no one answer but as I have said many, many times before without guns most of these problems would go away but there are many other factors that are at play here as well sometimes mental health issues play a role in this and peer pressure is always a factor but, in my opinion, I believe that it may start at home sometimes children are often neglected and verbally abused at home and that causes them to feel that if I am treated this way at home this is how all children are treated so this becomes normal and as you grow up you become bitter and angry and you have no self-value and if you don't value your own life there is no way you will value anyone else's life and it is the most common problem that society is facing I have seen children being yelled at by their parents and I often wonder to myself if they yell at them like this in public I can imagine how bad it is behind closed doors so the making of a goon has many ingredients and we can argue about them all but the one thing that we can all agree on is the carnage and destruction that is left because of them.