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Our protected circle of homes awoke to gunshots at 4:50 AM last Friday. Immediately after the volley, I listened as a car accelerated down an adjacent street.
Two hours later, neighbors found four bullets in their kitchen, calling back police who had been there earlier to investigate. It was apparently random firing of a .22 caliber pistol – or misfires from a street dispute.
Feeling jarred all day, I related the incident to buddies over lunch. A lively debate on gun control followed until David Martin offered his clever solution: “Forget guns, raise the cost of bullets to $10 each!”