Once the details are decided, so are the attitudes. Will this shooting break from the pack and make headlines for more than a day or two? I wonder if the bar has been raised. Even the Super Bowl shooting seemed to be a blip on many people’s radar.
But the parade shooting wasn’t even the only shooting that day. In Atlanta, the city I live in, four high school students were shot when someone opened fire from a vehicle into the parking lot. Atlanta Public Schools said all four were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
I learned about the shootings at the same time. After working for a few hours, one of my loved ones took me out for a walk on Atlanta’s BeltLine. The sunshine on my face and fresh air was healing. I felt okay, happy even.
We got cocktails at a nearby bar and sat down to people watch when I pulled out my phone to see reports of gunfire. The information was sparse, but there were at least two…