The Boo Blog tells us what it’s like to see a shooting in the Mission, and then think about it nonstop afterward.
Here’s the event:
I saw a kid in a red hoodie pointing his gun at another young man. I don’t remember what either looked like. I told the student I was working with to get behind something and I did the same, not that it mattered. The shooter was, after all, a kid, and like a kid, once the shots were fired, he ran away. I never saw his face, but I could tell by the way he was running that he was as scared as the kid he was shooting at.
Here’s a thought on the aftermath:
City blocks are resilient things. People say that about nature, but city blocks are amazing to me because they are complete neutral–they are created and recreated daily by the people who live on them. After the police were gone and people stopped making dumb comments like the one I made, the block has returned to being the same kind of ugly/beautiful urban block it had been before.
And there’s plenty more. Read on.
I tired to read his post, and gave up because there is ultimately nothing I can do about people shooting people with guns in San Francisco than get really angry at people who shoot people with guns in San Francisco.
I’m over the assholes.