Vortex, did you see the craziness with your biker post to Good Stuff?? 30K notes!

I tried to post about this on facebook, but could not.

Years ago, after seeing a piece on BACA on the news, I wrote to the president of the organization, thanking them for being there for kids in a way I wish someone had been there for me.

I was incredibly choked up by his earnest and sincere response.

It was short and very raw...clearly not a fellow with a lot of book learning. He thanked me for saying nice things about them and then said that he was sorry that no one was there for me.

"If I could have I would have."

I'll never forget it.

eta: corrected for the irony of having loads of book learning plus dyslexia. sigh.

bonny, that is utterly lovely. I teared up reading that.

bonny, that is utterly lovely. I teared up reading that.

Yes. This.

I countered with "pity the poor people in the crossfire"

Yeah, dark theater filled with smoke... it would take a Jason Bourne type for that to end well.

Some people are really great. Edit: The bikers I mean, of course, not any shooters.

Hubby just suggested that if there had been someone with a concealed weapon in the audience, then it wouldn't have been so bad.

He was in head-to-toe Kevlar, so someone shooting from the audience would have had to make a perfect head shot in a dark, smoke-filled theater.

I usually end up seeing things here first! Usually look to Wash Post and NyTimes for articles once I hear something happened. I have the local free paper's blog (Slog) and a local neughborhood blog that get me pretty much all the local news I need. I never read the Seattle Times.

He was in head-to-toe Kevlar, so someone shooting from the audience would have had to make a perfect head shot in a dark, smoke-filled theater.

Yeah. Without shooting any of the terrified people trying to get away.

It baffles me that I, a person who has never even fired a gun, can comprehend the logistics of this, yet someone who is so in love with guns cannot see how another gun in the hands of some random would-be self-styled hero in that situation would make things even worse.

A nice piece about Batman and what happened: [link]

There are some arguments I know not to pursue. After 26+ years, some things aren't going to change and some things should be left to wither on the vine.

I guess I am seriously overwhelmed. I'm just sitting here, randomly breaking into tears, and I can't do anything.

My sister just called me -- I'm her local news source. Whenever she hears about anything happening, she calls me to find out what's going on. So I just related the whole story to her. Now I just want to go back to bed.