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Monday, January 28, 2013

Guns Twilight Exit, a Gun, and a Child

Posted by Charles Mudede on Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 8:11 AM

It's not pure chance that one of our writers happened to be next to the woman who was shot. The kind of society we live in exposes us continually to this kind of danger.

UPDATE: The Stranger writer, Marti Jonjak, who happened to be next to the woman who was shot, will post a brief account of the incident in a moment or two.

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I'm not sure how a nightclub shooting is even possible. You know... because guns are banned in nightclubs.

Posted by CPN on January 28, 2013 at 1:03 PM

@10, it's a good thing he didn't have a used, single-use missile launcher, then he would have caused some real damage.

Posted by GermanSausage on January 28, 2013 at 12:05 PM

While we're entertaining trolls (@7 et al), let's explore the concept that if the shooter had undergone some traditional gun training, as gun advocates constantly long for, he'd have been programmed to shoot to kill rather than at his victim's legs.

Posted by Eastpike on January 28, 2013 at 10:46 AM

@7 why do you think they helped? They shot him dead, the first homicide of the year.

Posted by Eastpike on January 28, 2013 at 10:33 AM

@7 I recently took a CPR course, and they now teach the mouth-to-mouth part as optional. The reason given was that response time is on the order of 3 minutes in our county, and not requiring mouth-to-mouth encourages you to help that stranger you might not want to kiss.

Surely reducing the number of guns on the street is a better strategy than arm-everyone in a world where police are 3 minutes away.

Posted by Matt the Engineer on January 28, 2013 at 10:28 AM

Thankfully a helpful person with a gun arrived so quickly!

Posted by anonymoussss on January 28, 2013 at 10:18 AM

Yeah, that's why I was confused. Perhaps a broader community-of-Seattle-writers "our".

Posted by Josh Bis

on January 28, 2013 at 10:01 AM

@4 ...(and video taker?)

Not unless one of their writers also works for the Seattle PI. That's who posted the video to Youtube.

Posted by Brooklyn Reader on January 28, 2013 at 9:44 AM

It's not pure chance that one of our writers happened to be next to the woman who was shot.

Well, that's sure cryptic. Glad that this unnamed writer (and video taker?), along with all of the other people in the bar survived this horribly upsetting attack.

Posted by Josh Bis

on January 28, 2013 at 9:04 AM

Cannot find the story elsewhere. A link?

Posted by Chicago Fan on January 28, 2013 at 8:32 AM

Good Morning Charles,
I just read the account in this morning's Seattle Times. Glad you're safe and sound. I actually did think about you because as I recall, the Central District is the neighborhood where you reside.

My goodness, how unfortunate! Extraordinary how close this kind of incident can come to us. Too close. My regrets to all the families.

Posted by lark on January 28, 2013 at 8:18 AM