>>>>>>>>>>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?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>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.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Dragan - I thought better of you. That a couple of kids misbehaved is no reason for you to turn against _all_ your neighbors.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Tamar
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Wow, there's a bucket of truth.
>>>>>
>>>>>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}.
>>>>
>>>>Thieves are cowards. If they know you are packing heat, they will think twice.
>>>>
>>>>I will send you an application to the PA Crew Gun Club.
>>>>
>>>>I'll send Dragan one too. He's already got one of the requirements - a sweet beard.
>>>
>>>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.
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>I think that taking into account the level of frustration he feels now, hollow-point bullets would be appropriate.

Actually, I think a bar of soap in a sock would probably be better.