Finally saw it (no spoilers)

[justcarol67]

"Michelle Tague" <taguem at ...> wrote:
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> So sorry Carol.. It's affecting the nation. but I can't imagine how you locals are feeling. just know that so many of our thoughts and prayers are with you all.

> Wishing we could erase the hate so many seem to feel about each other right now.

Carol responds:

Thank you very much for your kind response. Yes, we're okay, but we could so easily have gone grocery shopping that day instead of the night before that it scares me every time I think of it. I feel sorry not only for the victims and their families but for the employees and customers who had to stay at the crime scene all day to be interrogated. The Safeway employees still haven't gone back to work. I wish I could let the ones I "know" know how I feel, but I don't know their last names or their phone numbers or where they live. At least, there's been an outpouring of sympathy for the victims and their families and even, I'm happy to say, for the shooter's parents, who have to live with grief and shame for the rest of their lives.

Maybe we can talk on the OT list about how to deal with all the hatred. I don't think the ugly political rhetoric of this last election had anything to do with the shootings, but it's a problem in itself. (I won't even touch the topic of Arizona's lax gun laws for fear of stirring up a hornet's nest.)

Carol, again thanking you (and everyone else who has expressed them) for the kind thoughts