"A Smith & Wesson would have brought those cholo gangbangers to their knees, while they waited for the cops to arrest them."
I doubt there was even a gun in the house. Ten to one states these people are all good little liberals. That is true for most of the West coast.
Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich starker. Those kids will live and there is probably a 25% chance they will actually become men and not end up as eunuchs who blame themselves or whitey in general for their butt whoopin. Then again there exists a 75% chance they become full fledged fellow travelers to the hate whitey never ending road show.