Last night, I took my wife to the grocery store. While leaving the store headed back to the car, a few rows over, we heard what sounded like a gun shot. To my surprise, NOBODY, I mean NOBODY, on the parking lot jumped, appeared startled, or even sought refuge, including my wife and I.

We simply looked in the direction of the noise, and kept moving. I thought to myself, what have we become as a society, when the specter of gun fire doesn’t even move the needle of emotional anxiety?

As a society, we’ve become conditioned to violence. 😔