I don’t know. I guess it’s a measure of how safe Taiwanese society is, but when I see a guy emerging from a store opposite the restaurant I’m sitting in carrying a big rifle, it sets me on edge. Since I was in Taiwan, after the initial moment of unease, I took out my camera and shot him. Had I been in the UK, I would have been scared he might have shot me and my partner, and I would have been out of the back entrance of the restaurant. Like, I suppose, a shot. It was probably just an air rifle. But come on. Pointing it down the street and looking through the sight like that, as if you’re about to shoot? There’s something, it seems to me, a little unwise about that.
And yes, he did pull the trigger.
不知該怎麼說,但我猜從這應可看出台灣的社會是多麼安全。當我看到有一個人從我正坐著的餐廳對面的店裡出現,手持一把很大的來福槍,就讓我很緊張。但因為我是在台灣,所以在一開始的緊張過後,我就拿出相機拍下了他。如果我是在英國,我就會很怕他向不遠的餐廳這兒走來,並對我和伴侶造成危險。如果我是在英國遇到這景象,我就會毫不考慮衝向餐廳後,奪門而出。
我從沒拿過真槍。我不是專家,但我承認這可能不過是一把空氣槍。想了一下,知道我們其實並未處於危險中,我感到釋懷。但是拜託,像這樣舉起槍管,朝街上瞄準,扣住扳機,一副你馬上要射擊的樣子? 對我來說,這實在是有點不智。
然後沒錯,他的確扣下了扳機。
(台北時報編譯林俐凱譯)
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