I spent Saturday washing clothes and floors and generally cleaning up the nest. Winter is coming even to Phoenix. A quick trip to the grocery store held for me an unexpected surprise. A young man dressed in jeans, ti-shirt and boots was striding hurriedly across the parking lot. His bustle attracted my attention and as he went through the entrance I saw sticking out from under his bunched up ti-shirt a big black gun. I stop dead in my tracks but noticed that everyone else walking towards the store continued walking. Let me give you the list of thoughts that raced through my mind.
1. a robbery was about to take place
2. move away from the store
3. why did no one else see that gun
4. no criminal would expose their gun in that way until the last moment
5. Oh my God that is an ordinary citizen of these parts
Twenty-four hours later I am now thinking that this is a very dangerous place where everyone is potentially armed and dangerous. I find this very depressing. I can't quite get my head around this idea of wearing a gun like a fancy belt buckle.
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I'm pretty sure I would have pee-ed my pants seeing a guy with a gun too! You've gone all AUSTRALIAN!!
RZeminds me of when I first arrived in Australia and was gobsmacked by the fact that Police Officers wore guns as a matter of course. (At that stage in NZ, the Armed Offenders' Squad had o return to the Police Station to unlock the cupboard where they kept their guns before they could use them)
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