"I was thinking about this when I came across a rack of merchandise being sold on the street during the Bricks events.
They were T-shirts advertising Flint.
Sort of.
The real subject of this apparel was Flint's violent reputation.
I'm sure you've seen it before.
It's been around, there are several iterations.
Some shirts say "Murderville" or "most violent city," some simply have the word "Flint" alongside a drawing of a handgun or a bullet hole.
Bang bang.
You're dead.
People get killed here.
Funny, huh?
Sure, they're meant to be jokes, a tongue-in-cheek riff on Flint's violent reputation.
Maybe at first they seemed funny, or clever.
That one where the "L" in Flint is a sideways gun.
That's kind of cute, right?"
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