Mass Shooting 13 Dead Thousand Oaks California

Well, the homage looks a little like a vintage clothing store on Melrose, or the decor at a local Buffalo Exchange | Vintage and Used Clothing | Sell Your Clothes

But comic relief will not replace the lives that were taken.

In a recent visit to a local grocery store (I live in the vicinity) near the bar, I saw a man running... inside the store, probably rushing to respond to some mundane thing; a phone call from someone waiting with their car running outside...

& you've heard me mention salient bias... My immediate conclusion was that this community equates my presence with that event.

If you're from Colorado, you might be familiar with the same phenomenon; particularly if you try to wear a trench coat, or if you dress goth at any school anywhere on the planet.

Am I a shooter? No... class dismissed.

But there was a shooter. & he went to a club didn't he... like Orlando (Pulse), except this wasn't a gay bar. It was a college night at a country bar.

I don't have a lot to add. I'm not a college kid anymore, and I'm a little older than they are. & I'd dedicate a song in this thread just to put it into the context of my emotional connection to this. But silence is more appropriate I think.

I think by making the comparison between myself and the shooter during my grocery store visit, I've got a bad taste though. It's like the salience bias thing. No matter who tells me, "no one thinks you're like that guy" the grim reality is that is the conclusion I was able to arrive at. Footsteps falling fast... indoors. Running. In Thousand Oaks.

RIP.

Here they are, yall: