Hyping Fear

Seems someone here had an eventful evening.

Around 5:40PM or so last night I receive a call from my sister informing me that her job and the mall was on lockdown. She did not know what the specifics of what was actually happening, only that there were twenty cop cars outside her work and near the mall. From what she knew, was that a "gunmen" was inside the mall. In reality we both came to find out that two kids were fighting and one possibly had a knife while the other kid possibly had a gun and were hiding a good hundred yards away from the mall. Still a threat to everyone's safety.

Some truly scary shit there for a while. Especially since our apartment is close to the Mall.

This is not the first shooting to occur at the mall here in Gainesville. Just a few weeks ago, two men were fighting outside of a restaurant near the mall, when one of them pull out a gun and shot the man in the chest.

With all recent shootings in Nebraska and in Colorado people are starting to feel on edge. I sure as hell know I am. Who wants to enter a mall thinking that might be the last thing you do.

Well hopefully things start to calm down a bit as Christmas draws near. But I have one of those feelings that there will be a crop of copycats popping up. As long as we have mentally unstable people who have this mindset where they believe that there's nothing to live for and that they only way to make an exit is to go with guns blazing. This trend of random meaningless shootings will continue.


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