It's extremely sad and disgusting how cruel people can get nowadays. When, and why the hell did we ever stop believing that human life was sacred and precious anyway? Why have we started to torture and kill each other, and think that that's ok? Some people get off on that stuff. It's disgusting.

Of course it could be need as well. Which makes it even worse, and pathetic. I'm talking about the need of pointing a gun at someone's face just because you're poor, hungry, in need of some quick cash, or whatever.

It can (and it did), get severely traumatizing for someone like me, who is, a) a single mom, and b) the breadwinner of the family. All these thoughts and scenarios of "what if i had gotten shot" were streaming live in my head for 48 hours.

Staring down the barrel of a gun that's pointed to your face is no fun at all.