Went to a music show around 2022 and was in the middle of the crowd when they put an alert up on the big screen telling everyone to stay calm with the grateful dead bears and all I could think was “must be someone with a gun if they’re being so nonchalant about it”. No calls to evacuate, just “everyone chill out, we got another one”.
Didn’t really give me a warm and safe feeling, and have no interest to go back regardless of who is in power because of it.
I was deep in the crowd, and the way it was put up on the screen made it seem like a “don’t worry about it guys, we figured it out!” Before we knew what it was and I didn’t want to stick around to find out after the show.
Went to a music show around 2022 and was in the middle of the crowd when they put an alert up on the big screen telling everyone to stay calm with the grateful dead bears and all I could think was “must be someone with a gun if they’re being so nonchalant about it”. No calls to evacuate, just “everyone chill out, we got another one”.
Didn’t really give me a warm and safe feeling, and have no interest to go back regardless of who is in power because of it.
But what actually happened? That is not how Americans react to an active shooter, no nonchalance about it.
I was deep in the crowd, and the way it was put up on the screen made it seem like a “don’t worry about it guys, we figured it out!” Before we knew what it was and I didn’t want to stick around to find out after the show.