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Re: My Gun Control Rant
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 9 Jan 2001 17:20:32 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mark Sandlin writes:
> > James Powell at wx732@freenet.victoria.bc.ca wrote:
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> > > Even traveling through some parts of the US that
> > > I have been warned about (Seattle, LA), I have NEVER felt afraid enough to be
> > > worried that I was not armed.
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> > You've been warned about Seattle? Really?
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> > What have people warned you about?
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> I happened to strike up a conversation with two jackbooted(1) police
> officers who said that their impression was that as long as you weren't
> perceived as a disgruntled customer or competitor, the enterpreneurs would
> leave you alone. Right after I talked to them, they started hassling an
> otherwise apparently upright citizen for crossing the street against a light
> so I dunno how much veracity I'd give them.
Being a Puget Sound native (My home addresses in my lifetime have been Oak
Harbor, Seattle, or Bellingham) I can tell you that jaywalking is practicly
a capital offense in Seattle. OK, maybe not that bad. How did the old joke
go, getting caught jaywalking was grounds for loss of your Nordstroms card.
Something like that. 8-) Really though, you can be in downtown Seattle at
3 in the morning, not a car in sight and you'll still see people waiting for
the light to change to cross the street. It's one of those "things" that
all the natives know, but make no sense to the world at large.
Jason
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| (...) I'm not James, of course, but I was warned about being in downtown Seattle ( by the fish market, the area where the monorail lets out, etc) late at night. I happened to *be* downtown late at night soon after, and there were a lot of people (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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