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So here I am working away at Starbucks, innocently surrounded by gentle folk drinking our lavender lattes and daintily scratching our diaries, and I look up and there's a guy — definitely not a cop, his lady was with him — waiting for his drink, with a handgun boldly displayed.
Right in my face! Right in your face!
Carrying openly like this is legal where I live and I don't doubt the dude checks all the boxes, had the necessary background check, law-abiding citizen, he's a good guy with a gun, yada yada yada, and so on, but still! Bringing it to the coffee shop! Why?
It unnerves me because it seems (someone feel free to speak up with a counter perspective) as though the open carrier is doing so to make a statement, assert power, let others know: "Public Service Alert — I could kill you if I wanted to."
Nothing about carrying a gun like that lowers the rhetorical emotional societal temperature. We do want to lower the temperature, right?
Oct 17, 2024
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I was driving behind a giant armored police vehicle yesterday. A khaki colored behemoth with “POLICE” stenciled across the side. Looking straight out of the gulf war. I thought to myself, “has there ever been a situation in Raleigh that required such a thing? Do we really need to spend our tax money on this?” I decided, no, because I remembered that when I was 18 RPD staked out a public park late at night for multiple nights to catch me ripping a GB. I realized it’s LARPing energy. Those boys in the big truck want the big truck for the same reason I bought a ton of vintage Lacoste and 90s Polish army surplus short-shorts after I watched Call Me By Your Name for the first time. Except it’s a 0% chance I get scared and kill someone with a dusty polo
Feb 27, 2025
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fun to simulate raising the stakes
Mar 10, 2024
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this is going to hurt — A LOT — but it's getting to the point where there's no other option
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