Darryl Youzefowich
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- Sep 15, 2008
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HI People, I am a newbie poster, so let me introduce myself. I am a Canadian guy from Alberta whose family has had a long relationship with the responsible gun culture, back home in Canada I inherited my fathers 30.06, his two shotguns, and an German 22 that collectors have been coveting for years. On my mother's side, my uncle was a gun smith, who introduced me to skeet shooting, target practice and gun responsibility.
In a strange turn of events, I find myself living in a foreign country in the Med., with a wife that has strong local roots and doesn't want to leave.
Yesterday, I had an altercation with a local bully, who last summer helped initiate a gang of his friends to 'beat up' my wife and I at our summer cottage, living as we are in a community of rough families from a local town. I did not pick this community and would love just to leave, but the situation is that this group of older men with families, are used to having their own way, and will arbitrarily decide to intimidate and threaten to establish their dominance. My wife and I were not around when they arrived, but my sister in-law took the full force of their intimidation, a tiny 28 year old woman. They were going to beat up her, but restrained themselves and went on to another couple, whom they promptly put in the hospital. The woman was put in the hospital for having the temerity to stand up to them - a gang of 9 men!
The altercation that got them upset, that stimulated them to action against us, was the putting up of a security fence 2 meters high, right on our property line! They would not counsel any dispute or input into the Manager's decision to put up the fence, we were not consulted, and they tried to punish us for trying to negotiate a small fence in front of our property.
Now you may think I am full of BS with this story, but I assure you, it is true and real.
I have called my sister and have arranged to have my street wise nephew and his friends over to this country to ....er, show some Canadian steel. I am not looking for a fight, but I do not want to live in fear the rest of the time I am in this country! The police and courts are useless here, if you know something about Med. culture. These men are not part of any national crime community that I know about, but I have hired an investigator to get some er, intelligence.
Now, I am afraid I have no alternative but to show some Winston Churchill style balls in the face of this obvious crap. I don't want a fight, but the fight is coming to me, and I will act, I am not interested in fighting, but a man has to be stand up and be counted for what he believes I believe. I am not interested in any heroics and I AM mature. Winston was an adult after all! He was not a child, like the group I am now facing (let's just say they backed hitler during the war, and he still admired here).
What gun would be best for intimidation purposes and to fire a shot that would not hurt anyone? I do not want to spend time in jail, not in this country, defending values they don't understand! The courts would obviously go against me if I seriously hurt someone. What do you people suggest?
Thanks for following me this far.
In a strange turn of events, I find myself living in a foreign country in the Med., with a wife that has strong local roots and doesn't want to leave.
Yesterday, I had an altercation with a local bully, who last summer helped initiate a gang of his friends to 'beat up' my wife and I at our summer cottage, living as we are in a community of rough families from a local town. I did not pick this community and would love just to leave, but the situation is that this group of older men with families, are used to having their own way, and will arbitrarily decide to intimidate and threaten to establish their dominance. My wife and I were not around when they arrived, but my sister in-law took the full force of their intimidation, a tiny 28 year old woman. They were going to beat up her, but restrained themselves and went on to another couple, whom they promptly put in the hospital. The woman was put in the hospital for having the temerity to stand up to them - a gang of 9 men!
The altercation that got them upset, that stimulated them to action against us, was the putting up of a security fence 2 meters high, right on our property line! They would not counsel any dispute or input into the Manager's decision to put up the fence, we were not consulted, and they tried to punish us for trying to negotiate a small fence in front of our property.
Now you may think I am full of BS with this story, but I assure you, it is true and real.
I have called my sister and have arranged to have my street wise nephew and his friends over to this country to ....er, show some Canadian steel. I am not looking for a fight, but I do not want to live in fear the rest of the time I am in this country! The police and courts are useless here, if you know something about Med. culture. These men are not part of any national crime community that I know about, but I have hired an investigator to get some er, intelligence.
Now, I am afraid I have no alternative but to show some Winston Churchill style balls in the face of this obvious crap. I don't want a fight, but the fight is coming to me, and I will act, I am not interested in fighting, but a man has to be stand up and be counted for what he believes I believe. I am not interested in any heroics and I AM mature. Winston was an adult after all! He was not a child, like the group I am now facing (let's just say they backed hitler during the war, and he still admired here).
What gun would be best for intimidation purposes and to fire a shot that would not hurt anyone? I do not want to spend time in jail, not in this country, defending values they don't understand! The courts would obviously go against me if I seriously hurt someone. What do you people suggest?
Thanks for following me this far.