[UA] Invisible Rules

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

So, we're all agreed.  For that gritty sense of
realism, the only way drugs and guns should be
connected in your UA campaign is if you're at a party
with Dirk Allen and he turns to his latest fling (or
maybe you've travelled back in time and you see his
first wife and what really happened was) and says:
"it's time for our William Tell routine, dear."

--- Cassady Toles <Con_Job at excite.com> wrote:
> Gang-level drug dealers/users are often
> connected/affiliated with guns, but
> of the ones I've met, usually only carry them when
> they need to have them. 
> Further, a huge portion of drug users/dealers
> (especially the yuppie-set: 
> selling H to models, coke to lawyers, and shrooms,
> pot, X, and special K to
> ravers and college students) wouldn't be caught dead
> with a gun).  More guns
> are sold yearly in this country legally to people
> with legal concealed
> weapon permits or hunting liscences (most of whom
> don't sell drugs) than
> illegally (where dealers would get them) and illegal
> guns also go to
> hitpersons, etc.  The idea of drug dealers who are
> always strapped is a
> fiction of the media.  
> 
> The reasons most carry one or the other and not both
> are simple:  You double
> your chances of being caught by a cop, if you're
> caught with one or the
> other it can probably be dealt with either locally
> or on a state level; both
> greatly increases the likelihood of feds getting
> involved; and possession of
> both is considered proof of intent to sell.
> 
> I have met lots of them.  But I won't discuss
> further relations until the
> statute of limitations has ended...
> 
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2001 19:25:12 -0700 (PDT),
> ua at lists.uchicago.edu wrote:
> 
>   Okay, fine, I'll admit I've heard of people who do
> a
>   lot of drugs and use a lot of guns.  Hunter S.
>   Thompson and William S. Burroughs are, of course,
> top
>   of the list... but except for random images of
>   well-dressed Columbians with very expensive pieces
>   that the media and ATF show me, I have actually
> met
>   very few myself. (All the Columbians I know, of
> which
>   there are very few because I know two many people
> from
>   Argentina, don't know very much about guns.  One
> of
>   them is a gamer, so he claims to know very much,
> but
>   he seems to be as bad as I am at finding the
> safety
>   catch on, say, our friend's black shiny pistol
> with a
>   bent magazine.)
>   
>   Ps. Is Manufacturing Consent a spell in any of the
>   'mancies?  I thought it might be, but I don't have
> a
>   copy of Postmodern Magickq nearby.
>   
>   If it isn't in one of the schools, anybody got one
>   where it would belong?  I still think Bureaumancy
>   would be a great school.
>   
>   --- Nick Wedig <mrteapot at disinfo.net> wrote:
>   
>   > Mr. Teapot
>   > thinks that the people he knows with guns and
> those
>   > with drugs are two almost entirely separate
> groups
>   
>   
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