Terror At Home and Abroad
Feb. 13th, 2007 02:19 pmSo I was booking it home last night to miss as little of the special 2-hour night of "24" as I could. ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
shellic had told me she would tape what I missed, but I wanted to get home as soon as I could after my class ended at 7:00 pm.
I walked into the living room and what should be on, but a "Breaking News" on channel 13 telling about how there had been a shooting at Trolley Square in Salt Lake City. Trolley Square is a mall that's seen better days in a more yuppie-ish area of downtown SLC and not the sort of place you'd expect to see any kind of violence. Usually, you see that kind of stuff on the west end of the Salt Lake Valley, which makes it understandable that I first thought that this was just an over-hyped incident in West Valley and why couldn't these gang-bangers postpone their bullshit until "American Idol" and not interrupt something that people actually cared about?
Then I kept watching and I found out that the guy (they weren't saying who it was at the time) was in downtown Salt Lake and this was serious stuff. I suppose it's lucky that the police shot the bastard because there would have been a lot of irate "24" fans trying to hunt him down, in addition to having the cops and the families of the victims on his tail.
It was a little jarring to be yanked from "24" where poor ol' Morris was getting tortured by the terrorists (with a drill bit... eeeesh) to scenes at Trolley Square with panicked families and police cars everywhere. I hope they find out why this Columbine-wannabe did this. On one hand, it's a good thing that they stopped him when they did, but at the same time, I wish we had something to kick around while we're being pissed off.
Whenever something like this happens, most of the media and politicians flitter around offering condolences and feeling sad about it, which are nice, but I get mad and want to take a baseball bat to something. I want to be able to make the asshole pay for what he did, even though he already has ("We'll judge no man, but send him to his Maker and let Him take it from there." -- I think Brigham Young said something like that, correct me if I'm wrong). I don't even know anybody involved, though my sister at the University of Utah goes there with her roommates from time to time. If this is how I feel without being myself directly involved, think about the people who were actually there.
We need more Jack Bauers in the world.
Love from,
Jenny Wildcat
shellic had told me she would tape what I missed, but I wanted to get home as soon as I could after my class ended at 7:00 pm.I walked into the living room and what should be on, but a "Breaking News" on channel 13 telling about how there had been a shooting at Trolley Square in Salt Lake City. Trolley Square is a mall that's seen better days in a more yuppie-ish area of downtown SLC and not the sort of place you'd expect to see any kind of violence. Usually, you see that kind of stuff on the west end of the Salt Lake Valley, which makes it understandable that I first thought that this was just an over-hyped incident in West Valley and why couldn't these gang-bangers postpone their bullshit until "American Idol" and not interrupt something that people actually cared about?
Then I kept watching and I found out that the guy (they weren't saying who it was at the time) was in downtown Salt Lake and this was serious stuff. I suppose it's lucky that the police shot the bastard because there would have been a lot of irate "24" fans trying to hunt him down, in addition to having the cops and the families of the victims on his tail.
It was a little jarring to be yanked from "24" where poor ol' Morris was getting tortured by the terrorists (with a drill bit... eeeesh) to scenes at Trolley Square with panicked families and police cars everywhere. I hope they find out why this Columbine-wannabe did this. On one hand, it's a good thing that they stopped him when they did, but at the same time, I wish we had something to kick around while we're being pissed off.
Whenever something like this happens, most of the media and politicians flitter around offering condolences and feeling sad about it, which are nice, but I get mad and want to take a baseball bat to something. I want to be able to make the asshole pay for what he did, even though he already has ("We'll judge no man, but send him to his Maker and let Him take it from there." -- I think Brigham Young said something like that, correct me if I'm wrong). I don't even know anybody involved, though my sister at the University of Utah goes there with her roommates from time to time. If this is how I feel without being myself directly involved, think about the people who were actually there.
We need more Jack Bauers in the world.
Love from,
Jenny Wildcat
