Hey y’all. As a lot of you already know from the news headlines, there was a mass shooting that occurred yesterday afternoon in Boulder, Colorado.  Ten people were killed, including a police officer. They managed to apprehend the shooter, a shirtless incel guy who used a patrol rifle to shoot his victims. I was in the store when it happened. At first, I stupidly thought that the loud bangs behind me were from machinery or something, maybe a garbage truck outside. But then there were three, four, five of them, and then shouting.  I didn’t bother to even look behind me. I was on the right side of the store near the emergency exits. An employee at the deli counter shouted at me to get the heck out of there, so I ditched my cart and bolted for the doors. More gunshots, can’t remember how many.  As I ran to my car which was parked in the middle of the lot, I ran past an immobile body on the street that didn’t look like it was breathing. I managed to get in my car without any injuries, and then I proceeded to take pictures and film some of it before driving to safety. I am home safe now. The video clips will likely be in the news, and I can’t show them here due to size limits. But I attached a pic of the view from my car as cop cars piled into the parking lot, as well as a pic of the outside of the store, where a SWAT vehicle was parked. Thinking back on it, my body had such a dissociation response to the incident that it felt like my sense of self completely eroded and all that was left was a body, running away from something dangerous. It almost felt like a dream or a video game, like if I were shot I could just respawn or something. I can't sleep, as I'm still processing all of it. I am so heartbroken, and I'm shocked that something like this could happen in a primarily Stage Green bubble. My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone in that store and everyone else who was affected. I seriously could have been one of those ten people, but I was one of the lucky ones. I also just moved to Boulder a few days ago, and I was using Instacart for the first time yesterday. Who knew that grocery shopping could be so dangerous... Jokes aside — this opens up a huge can of worms for discussion on all things gun control and mental health, so I figure that since I was on the scene, I would start a thread. What are your thoughts on this event and the issue of gun control? How do systems connect to this issue? How about mental health? Covid rules? What do you think should be done to prevent these sorts of things from happening?