hi everyone uh this is charles and uh today i found out uh just head home from the office that there was a shooting at king uh which is a supermarket here in america that's in boulder and that particular store i had a uh pretty deep connection to uh i as many of you know i was a student at university of colorado at boulder and about two to three times a week i would go into that king supers and get some coffee or one of those monster energy drinks or something like that i frequented that store for well over three years and i got to know a lot of the employees there and it was just a store that was part of my daily routine uh what happened was that apparently a person entered and was armed with i think an ar-15 and killed 10 people and what appears to be a completely random mass shooting there's not a lot of details at the moment other than 10 people have died including a police officer uh and it's just a a really sombering tragic moment you know you see these things on the news and you hear about them but to be so close to home where something is random as you're going into a supermarket i did today i went to the whole foods nearby my office to get some coconut milk uh for uh mixing drinks and i never in a million years thought that going into a supermarket somebody armed with an assault rifle would kill someone it's unbelievable especially given that two three times a week that was my story going to a place like that uh and now we're here brings up a broader point uh political demagogues will try to push for whatever policy that they want one way or the other but what we're really missing in this country is in empathy human empathy we're starting and it's been going on for a while to lose touch with each other and our understanding of each other and each other's situations i don't know why people go and shoot up a store or school or a church and it seems entirely too easy to blame this on mental illness entirely too easy to blame this on a particular bizarre circumstance because it just keeps happening i think it's we as a society have lost touch with each other and as a consequence of not understanding and having compassion and empathy with each other and so profoundly dehumanizing each other that it becomes easy to think that such an act is somehow sensible and it's just sad to me good people didn't have to die and you know when you see these things you hear these things you just wonder why so in the coming days i guess we're going to find out more and in the coming days i guess we'll try to find out a motive to these things but right now it just makes me sad and i feel terrible for the families you know uh there's no meaning or sense to any of this and i feel terrible for all the people that have to deal with the trauma of this event it's not just the dead it's every single employee at that store it's every single person who visits that store it's the family of the shooter more likely than not who has to deal with the questions as well and it's sad so it is what it is and uh i just can't understand why this keeps happening so that's it for today no warm sunny colorado opening this one wasn't a warm and sunny day so i guess it wasn't always warm and sunny but hopefully tomorrow will be a better day hearts and prayers goes out to all those impacted and affected and let's all just try to get some sleep goodnight everyone
