>>>>>>>>Dragan,
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>>>>>>>>Sorry for your loss. But I am wondering, would you write the same message if the two kids were white? Would you stop giving to white charities if the kids were white? You see what I am saying?
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>>>>>>>It's that I feel betrayed, I guess. We wanted to be part of the neighborhood, not just a family of foreigners, and this is putting a barricade between us in a way. This is probably my bubble bursting.
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>>>>>>Dragan - I thought better of you. That a couple of kids misbehaved is no reason for you to turn against _all_ your neighbors.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Tamar
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>>>>>OTOH its easy to judge people when not living in their circumstances.
>>>>>
>>>>>Lots of liberal commentators often give people a hard time for being racist when they themselves live in nice aflluent areas where they don't have to deal with the day to day life problems of the poorer areas.
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>>>>Wow, there's a bucket of truth.
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>>>I am sure you will agree with me that the best crime prevention technique is to have a 12 gage shotgun and every so often shooting it at the bushes surrounding your house. Kind or randomly {g}.
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>>Thieves are cowards. If they know you are packing heat, they will think twice.
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>>I will send you an application to the PA Crew Gun Club.
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>>I'll send Dragan one too. He's already got one of the requirements - a sweet beard.
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>Let me know what he needs for ammo. I can make most standard calibers for pistol or rifle..

Dragan seems like a musket kind of guy. He doesn't measure the powder either, he dumps it directly from his powder horn like Davy Crockett.