It's taken a while for me to actually sit and process everything that has happened in the last month. I'm not a news watcher by any means.I actually go out of my way to NOT watch the news. I don't need to be depressed all the time and I really don't want the fucked up outside world cluttering my mind. Then it happened...
I was planning on seeing Dark Knight Rises the weekend it came out on Sunday night. Money situations had changed that but that wasn't all. The shooting in Aurora, Colorado happened, I'm not going to spend time going into details because everyone knows them already, but it did hit me hard. I try to keep a hard exterior mainly because I don't want people worrying about me, but that really got to me.
This weekend I finally got to see Dark Knight Rises. Well if you've seen it you know how crazy the first 15 minutes are. Well as all the gun fire in the movie is going off, almost subconsciously my eyes roamed the theater and found the extra and then I got back to the screen and back into the movie.
Looking back at that little moment, that wouldn't have happened last month. Going to the movies was suddenly no longer a $10 escape from reality, I got paranoid, despite what I told myself before we got there. Suddenly I wasn't safe anymore in a movie theater, all because of a psychopath in Colorado.
Is no where safe anymore?
That question was tragically answered on Sunday morning when another psycho shot up a church in fucking OAK CREEK!!! For my Jersey friends who don't understand how WI towns work, Oak Creek is literally on the border of the city of Milwaukee. This happened close to when I live and work. It doesn't make sense to me at all.
I'm not sure how I feel anymore about gun control or how affects the country. I just know right now I don't feel safe anywhere, except my own home.
I'm not even sure where I was going with this. I just needed to write my thoughts down.
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