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mistressofmuses) wrote2021-03-22 07:50 pm
mistressofmuses) wrote2021-03-22 07:50 pm
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Another mass shooting, this one in Boulder, CO. That's less than an hour from me.
I just feel *tired.*
There hasn't been a lot of information released - there was a delayed press conference, but the answer to almost every question was "that will be part of the investigation."
So far it's been confirmed that there was a shooting in a King Soopers (our local Kroger supermarket chain), leaving multiple fatalities, one of whom was a police officer. It seems very likely that the man on a video of the police response, who was led out in handcuffs, and also appeared to be injured, is the suspected shooter. Local reports (not officially confirmed) state a total of six fatalities.
One of our friends said her office building was visible on the helicopter footage of the scene, and that was very surreal for her.
Almost all of these kinds of events provoke a little of that "could have been me" feeling, because they're often so random (in terms of location, though often the targets are selected deliberately), and because they happen so horrifically frequently in this country.
This one feels little more that way because it happened in a city I drive through at least every couple of months, where I have friends that I talk to frequently. In a grocery store with the same logo as the one Alex and I visit every couple of days. Then I start worrying about "what if this had happened here, and Alex had been running errands at the time? What if he'd been in there?"
And then someone reminded me of the NRA tweeting back on the 16th about their "victory" in declaring specifically Boulder's ban on AR-15s and high-capacity magazines unconstitutional. And I am just SO tired.
I just feel *tired.*
There hasn't been a lot of information released - there was a delayed press conference, but the answer to almost every question was "that will be part of the investigation."
So far it's been confirmed that there was a shooting in a King Soopers (our local Kroger supermarket chain), leaving multiple fatalities, one of whom was a police officer. It seems very likely that the man on a video of the police response, who was led out in handcuffs, and also appeared to be injured, is the suspected shooter. Local reports (not officially confirmed) state a total of six fatalities.
One of our friends said her office building was visible on the helicopter footage of the scene, and that was very surreal for her.
Almost all of these kinds of events provoke a little of that "could have been me" feeling, because they're often so random (in terms of location, though often the targets are selected deliberately), and because they happen so horrifically frequently in this country.
This one feels little more that way because it happened in a city I drive through at least every couple of months, where I have friends that I talk to frequently. In a grocery store with the same logo as the one Alex and I visit every couple of days. Then I start worrying about "what if this had happened here, and Alex had been running errands at the time? What if he'd been in there?"
And then someone reminded me of the NRA tweeting back on the 16th about their "victory" in declaring specifically Boulder's ban on AR-15s and high-capacity magazines unconstitutional. And I am just SO tired.