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Progressive Jones

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3. I grew up in Austin.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Wed Jul 8, 2020, 10:30 PM

Jul 2020

It was a great area of the city until the drug gangs began shooting the place up in drug turf wars.
That's what it's all about. Drive by shootings aren't robberies. They are targeted attacks. They are acts of war.

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