Life is scary. Everywhere you turn (on TV, Internet, Radio) you hear about the bad things that are happening around the world. Bombing in other countries, Soldiers being killed, school shootings... then it happens close to home.
Today at 6:45 right in the middle of the dinner hour a Mall very close to my work was attacked by a gunman with a shotgun. I didn't even hear about it until we got home from having dinner with the in-laws, having my mom print pictures, and visiting a neighbor. At first I just thought shooting at a mall -- probably gang related. But it wasn't, it was a man going into a crowded mall and shooting random people. There were families there, there were children there, there were brothers, sisters, mothers, father, grandparents, THEY WERE INNOCENT PEOPLE! People were hiding in stairwells, in stores, even in freezers at restaurants trying to stay safe. People died (possibly 5 - 6 counting the gunman).
Why do people do this. What gives them the right to take the lives of innocent people? I've asked this when I hear about school shootings, bombings, 9/11. But WHY!? If their lives suck so bad, why not just kill themselves why take others down with them? I just don't get it. I'm sure I never will.
It's scary because the shooting happened just down the street from where I work. We eat at that mall on occasion. I mean it's the only Mall in Utah with a Pottery Barn! How scary to go back there. Knowing what happened there, that people were killed there. I'm sure the mall will be closed for days -- to clean up and to let the people heal.
We can't live being scared though. I've talked about this before here. I know when I go out (even before this happened) I have mini anxiety attacks because I have a very wild imagination and I imagine the worst possible situation and how I'll get out of it. Then this happens and it will start all over again. I mean these people thought they were safe, they just went to the mall to have dinner or to shop and THIS HAPPENS!
Yeah I'm in shock. I sat down to watch Heroes that I had taped from earlier on DVR to take my mind off of the shooting and all I had was breaking news of this story (not that I was mad -- I mean we need to know what's going on). I'm sure for the next few days I will just be obsessed in finding out all the info that I can about this. It's crazy to watch the footage of the cops going into the mall with their guns drawn. Staying close to the walls and entering storefronts with caution. Even video of the cops on the Mall roof. Can you imagine how long and hard it will be to clear an entire Mall? This Mall takes up a few blocks, the cops will have to check each store, dressing rooms, backrooms, restaurants, freezers, crawl spaces, stairways. It's just crazy! Tragedy
So yeah I'm going to bed. I need to sleep. I need to not think about this.
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Monday, February 12, 2007
When it happens so close to home
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6 comments:
I wasn't even aware this happened, but I haven't switched on the TV yet!
How very scary. The thought of it makes me truly ill and freaked out. I've been to that mall (The Pottery Barn thing).
Sad, sad, sad.
That is so sad! I worry about stuff like this all the time now that I have a kid. Just recently I heard about an old woman who lost control and drove her car into a school lunchroom killing a kid!!! I hate always having to be afraid of everything and everyone. :(
That is so scary--especially when it hits so close to home. I can't imagine what it must have been like to be there during the shooting. So scary.
yep, now I'm obsessed with the news 2,000 miles away. GREAT. That and worried sick that it's someone I know (or someone I'm related to)--knowing my luck these days, I wouldn't be surprised.
It makes me sick! I have nightmares about scenarios like these...and it sucks.
I know what you mean. I go there on my lunchbreaks all the time. It's one of my favorite malls. It's so surreal that this happened so close to home. Are we not safe anywhere anymore?
We covered this sotry and immediately I thought of my blogegr friends in Utah and hoped and prayed they were no where near when it happened. I am so glad you are okay.
Stories like this (and the Amish schoolhouse story form a few months ago) make me so sad and worried about the state of society today. I mean, I do not understand why someone would think this is okay, that hurting and killing innocent people is fine. I don't want to live in a world like that.
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