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So on Tuesday this week I was helping a friend check out a car and heard 8 gunshots in rapid succession nearby, then heard a bullet whiz over my head.

I called it in, and @Aradia@mastodon.social linked me this article: myeverettnews.com/2017/06/27/s

I realized just now that didn't phase me at all, because I used to live in a nasty neighborhood and have since normalized gun fights? Like, I just accept they're a thing that happen around me.

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That's probably not normal for a person living in a 1st world country, but it's what I've come to call normal.

I don't know how that makes me feel.

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@mawr *eeps, hugs Mawr* I'm really glad you're okay!

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@mawr as someone who used to live in Oakland, CA, I have complete empathy with this feeling. :|

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