Moxie Update March 23
When I was 6 years old some men broke in to our home in rural Vermont with guns, they held my mother at gun point, took away her dignity, our car and some cash and left her and I very scared. We grew up with a no gun rule in the house. No BB guns, barely any squirt guns and definitely no real guns.
When I was 21 years old I hit a rough spot and went to live with my mother for a while in San Diego. There were gangs all over San Diego and some of my friends had guns in the cars as protection. I didn't really like living in San Diego much, it wasn't a good fit for me. That said, I started to consider buying a hand gun for my own safety. Somehow it made sense at the time. Then it occurred to me that I could just move back to Boulder where you don't need a gun for protection. So that's what I did. It seems crazy to me that I was considering buying a gun that would maybe be pointed at another person someday, even if he or she was a "bad guy". Who am I, Wyatt Earp?
The shooting yesterday has rattled me to the core. I went to sleep crying and woke up crying. I posted some angry anti-gun stuff on social media and am now watching as a huge debate ensues online.
I don't want to polarize people, I just want to see some reasonable measures taken to prevent this from continuing to happen. I am so sorry and my heart pours out to all of the victims and their families of yesterdays shooting.
The team at Sweet Cow in the Table Mesa shopping center hid in the bathroom for 3 hours. These are mostly high school and young kids that Drew hires to scoop ice cream. Our friends at the Escoffier Institute just a few yards behind King Soopers are ok. Our friend Matej who is one of my dearest friends and also our wine dealer was on his way to shop at that King Soopers and found a police scene instead. His timing could have been very different.
Rainbow from the Jamestown Mercantile could have been buying a few dozen tortillas for a taco night at The Merc, but thank goodness she wasn't.
This is all too much, this is all too close to home. Colorado is known for its mountains, and music and mass murders.
Go hunt elk, go target shooting, shoot out the lights but don't shoot people.
Guns don't need to be associated with politics or religion or really anything.
I don't know what the right group is to align with, and I'd love to get your suggestions. We were wanting to do a fundraiser for the Atlanta victims and didn't even have enough time to organize that before this happened.
Andy