So@kittypopcreations, her new husband, and I survived a Walmart shooting tonight. No, this is not a joke or exaggeration. This is the actual line of events.
We all are safe and sound far away from that place, but wow, my trip to visit Kitty irl for her wedding sure has been an interesting experience I’ll never forget.
So as it turns out, it was fireworks, according to the news this morning.
Police say some kid lit some firecrackers. Thing is, the first pop, we thought it was a pop gun. Then there was a pause. Then there were several more pops that sounded like a panicked clip unload, with exactly the right number of pops to be exactly that. Plus, that particular Walmart was already known to be fairly shady.
I would also like to point out that that means this kid lit a fire in a Walmart. Firecrackers are a HUGE fire hazard. I don’t usually hope stuff like this, but I hope that kid gets in massive trouble. Not only could this kid have started a fire, people ran for their lives. People are traumatized. People froze thinking they were about to die. A huge crowd ran for cover and the exit.
(God, I knew those pops didn’t quite sound right.)
Also, in that circumstance, better safe than sorry. You hear banging noises in a store you can’t place? Get the hell out of there. It’s not worth risking your life, even if that banging noise turns out to be something relatively harmless later. You can’t risk being wrong in assuming it’s harmless.
