Re: Not always joking, it seems

On Feb 19, 3:35 am, "Marcus L. Rowland"
<forgottenfutu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> I often wonder when I see things like this incident; you have one man
> with a gun, and several hundred people without one. How come none of
> them tried throwing things at him? Ru****ng the stage? Turning the fire
> hose on him?

Just to add an SF reference, Keith Laumer (in "Worlds of the
Imperium", I think) has a scene in  parallel world in which people do
just that, suffering serious casualties but bringing the armed men
(beings?) down. The narrator speculates that people could still do
that because in the given time line, WWI never happened.

William Hyde