When the NP show up at my door, they will see me with a plastic bag with 2 cups of rice and a bottle of water in one hand and a 9mm cartridge in the other. I'll tell them that today they get the bag. Tomorrow they get the 9mm.
Cold? Perhaps. But it will be the only way....IF things get reaaly bad.
What do you do when his/her three children start crying and begging for food?