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if it's not drugs, they'll just do something else. It's less about what they are doing (drugs, robbery, whatever crime you can think of), than how they do it ("easy" money, the man not keeping them down, feeling like they have power (whether it's the one's with little peepees compensating or the real masterminds running the show).

Drugs is just one of the easy ways for them to do their thing. Although if all illegal drug use stopped today, it may slow things down for a bit, they'd come back and be doing something else.

It's a shame we can't REALLY declare war on the gangs. Send in the military in a take no prisoners, kill 'em all sort of thing. Obviously, that won't happen and practically, can't happen. But it sure is a nice fantasy.

It's too bad vigilanteism doesn't work like it does in the movies.

I'll say a little prayer for your brother and the LEOs in EP.