DS -

"At the end of the day it is weighing up option. If your friends are more important to you than the "consequences" [which I really doubt include death] then you make a stand, be it legally, violently or with the use of a large brick, a litre of petrol a cigarette lighter and the guy's car."

Mate its a different situation over there. People will kill other people for not much more than what we would term a mild slight.

Fukking about with guys that carry guns around with them is not a good idea, esp. if u know from previous experience that they're the kind of people that would use them.

Violence begets violence. Take a stand yeah, go to the police, but
"Not to sound like an egotistical twat, but if that were my friends, the people responsible would be in the A+E, receiving emergency attention. "

Then they would get out, come back and shoot you. Bottom line is, they'd be prepared to go further than you would be. Otherwise they'd be lying in a morgue rather than A+E. Doing anything less than killing those sorts of people in that sort of situation is IMO asking for it.

Reality check man. Things you can get away with in Stoke are going to get you killed in a place like Philadelphia.