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“Within the last two years it’s been gunshots, fights, gunshots and more gunshots,” a nearby business owner said. “We’ve found unconscious people bleeding out in the parking lot and we’ve had to call EMS.”

The American nightclub.

Margaret Soltan, November 14, 2023 8:01AM
Posted in: guns

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2 Responses to ““Within the last two years it’s been gunshots, fights, gunshots and more gunshots,” a nearby business owner said. “We’ve found unconscious people bleeding out in the parking lot and we’ve had to call EMS.””

  1. Anon Says:
    November 14th, 2023 at 7:29PM

    “Allowing affray to occur.” Sounds like a horrible place but I love this phrase.

  2. Margaret Soltan Says:
    November 15th, 2023 at 12:18AM

    Anon: Affray is a great word, but way out of use.

    This particular phrase is metrically lovely, featuring alliteration plus twin letters in almost every word. Nabokov might have put it in the mouth of Lolita’s Quilty.

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