The real cost of the war on drugs make Iraq look like pocket change.
Also, if you allow someone to dis you in front of your home boys, you'll have to leave town and not come back. If you shoot the scumbag that had the nerve to dis you, you'll be cool. If you get caught and go to jail, you're still leaving town but you can come back....at a higher status too.
The whole concept, the reasoning behind that attitude just blows my mind.