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Don't rocks through windows turn a coffee shop into the opposite of a gentrifier?
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Maybe the safe injection site should go into Chop Suey. Given all the shots in the arm and such.
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A rank beginner loaded the gun in his apartment?
Dum dum dum
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A rank beginner loaded the gun in his apartment and gave it a couple of blow jobs, one unloaded, one bareback.

I would not feel comfortable with such a person as my coworker.
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Sean's piece was raw and honest and personal. Say what you will, I loved reading it.
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In despite of the shootings, stabbings, deportations, accusations, legislation, indoctrination, denials, admissions, acquittals, and you name its - wishing each and every single one of you a very Happy Thanksgiving!
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“Nonetheless, I thought that if my experiment was going to be fair, I should try a little harder to put myself in situations where I might have reason to feel, if not actually imperiled, then at least uneasy. Fortunately, I live right around the corner from what KIRO once called "the most dangerous block in Seattle."

The stretch of Third Avenue between Yesler and James has a vastly higher incidence of reported violent crime—including drive-by shootings, robberies, and homicides—than any other comparable block in the city. Though KIRO's reporting on the street was predictably hysterical, there's no denying the air of desperation and illness that pervades the area. I have walked down it countless times coming to or from home. It is, in fact, where I went to apply for my concealed carry permit. I now made a point of walking down the block, at several times of day, while exercising the right granted me by that permit. It felt ghoulish, like I was looking for trouble where trouble already abounds.”

So Sean Nelson gets a gun, then makes a point to walk around a “dangerous” street, which is most filled with por minorities, looking for a reason to feel scared and potentially use his gun.

WHAT THE FUCK.

Seriously what the fuck.
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*poor minorities
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Yea the gun piece was well executed and written but ethically unsound and like all Nelson’s pieces cluelessly narcissistic. It’s like the equivalent of the Gweneth Paltrow putting on fat suit and walking around... or maybe a suicide bomb vest and walking around... and telling us the predictable lessons she learned.
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Ballet with a bulge segment from “Top Secret”
(Donald Trump makes an appearance at 0:50, attempts to kill a beautiful woman, then falls off the balcony)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C3n0B3f…
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I'm not sure I'd agree it's well-written, unless the definition simply involves getting all his grammar correct and varying sentence patterns, For example, Nelson seems to take his gun instructor's legal explanations at face value, failing to talk to an actual lawyer or legal scholar to determine if the explanations are correct or complete. When he reports the gun instructor saying that a business with a sign prohibiting guns is simply making a request rather than stating a legal requirement, this seems to mean that a person could bring a firearm into any place of business as often as they want and the business has no choice in the matter ever.

But I don't think that's the case. If a business becomes aware of someone concealing a weapon, can't it just bar the patron from returning, and if they do, it's trespassing? So even if the gun instructor is correct in suggesting that bringing a concealed gun into a Starbucks isn't going to get you arrested, Starbucks can still legally banish you. A legal expert would be able to explain this better than I can, but I did know someone about ten years ago who brought a gun to his college campus, and got barred from campus, even though he was not arrested because having the gun didn't actually break the law..

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