I want to acknowledge the anxiety that America’s constant mass shootings have instilled in me. It’s real and I don’t know how to handle it.
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I went to both a music festival (staged at DC’s Union Market) and a packed club show this weekend.
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On both occasions, I noticed myself looking for exits, escape routes, hiding places in the event of an active shooter or a terrorist attack.
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I could feel myself start to sweat. My heart began to pound.
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I’ve never had any qualms about being in crowded public places. But that’s slowly changed in the last few years.
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And this anxiety isn’t confined to the super crowded places. I feel it in the workplace, at the grocery store, on the Metro platform.
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Constitutionally protected freedoms are important. But I have to wonder...
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...if the second amendment is actually worth having when it means innocent people are bound to die at the hands of a person with a gun.
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I don’t want to live in a society where gun violence and mass shootings are the norm. I assume most of you would say the same.
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If that’s the case, something has to change...and soon. In the meantime, I have to figure out how to live with this anxiety.
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