Batman Birthday

Two days until vacation! I have to work Tuesday and Wednesday, then Wednesday night we're heading to Myrtle Beach for our birthdays. So exciting!

My husband and my brother bought each other tickets to see the midnight premier newest Batman movie, "The Dark Knight Rises" for their birthdays (early, they're July 26th and 27th respectively). I didn't go because I work a normal job... and I don't stay out until 3am ever... let alone on a worknight. They both had off the next day. They were really excited about it. Our theater had a saga showing of all three movies in a row (Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises).

The next morning, I flipped to the news while I was getting ready for work. As they were watching the movie with little boy excitement in Virginia, some psycho massacred a theater full of people seeing the same movie in Colorado. I just stared at the TV for a few minutes. Why would anyone do that? How could anyone do that? Then I started thinking about the families-- the wives, mothers, sisters, girlfriends-- who woke up not knowing why their loved ones didn't come home last night. I went upstairs to find Aaron peacefully dozing away. I sat next to him on the bed and just thanked God that it didn't happen in Virginia. Please don't misunderstand! My heart completely goes out to those people! I wish that hadn't happened at all. But it made me grateful that it hadn't happened here, to my family.

The story that twisted me the most was that of Alex Sullivan, another birthday boy who was two days shy of his one year wedding anniversary. His last facebook post was, "This is going to be the best birthday EVER!" Poor guy.

I know things like this can happen anywhere, but we never think of them until they do. What annoys me is that now all of these left-wing politicians are using this as their "mockingjay" symbol of anti-gun America. Here's my problem with this: gun control will only control those responsible, non-murdering-psycho Americans who would never kill anyone anyway. It will just take away their right to responsibly own and use firearms. Thugs, psychos, criminals-- they will still get their hands on weapons, no matter how restrictive our government gets. Where there's a will, there's a way.

Are you going to see the movie at the theater? Has this scared you away from movie theaters at all? How do you feel about current gun control? What about movie theater security? I have mixed feelings about that last one... I don't want them finding my Coke & candy stash when I see a movie, but I don't want someone sneaking in bombs or something. Plus, it would only increase the price of movie tickets.