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In reply to the discussion: Should all Black folks and Gay folks be treated as if they are carrying AR-15s in public? [View all]CompanyFirstSergeant
(1,558 posts)10. Where is the restaurant...
....in your essay?
I had been to the diner in Nassau county several weeks before the incident.
It is one of the reasons I obtained a license to carry, which, on Long Island, is even more difficult to get than in other parts of the state except NYC.
I still think about that incident, playing 'what-if' scenarios in my mind, for the past 34 years.
To my dying day - this is the one time I would have wanted to be somewhere I was not - to do whatever I could have done.
Watch out, contains some disturbing information....
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/28/nyregion/prison-release-recalls-horror-li-diner-1982-rampage-led-law-raising-felony.html?pagewanted=all
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