I’m Just Not Sure How I Feel About The Aurora Theater Reopening

I was a bit stunned when I saw on the news last night that the theater in Aurora is reopening. I’m sure you know which theater I’m talking about. I really don’t want to glorify the guy behind the whole thing by spreading his name around, so I’ll just assume that you already know the details (heck, it happened while I was in Paris and even tourists from other countries were mentioning it to me). I’m just surprised that the thing is reopening.

I mean, it sounded at first like they were just going to close forever. Too much bad press and too many bad things there. I guess that didn’t stick.

Of course, I can understand. A movie theater that size is an expensive thing, and if you just scrap something when something horrible happens there then you might not have anyplace left. Horrible things happen, though this was certainly worse than most. Besides, the only way to beat something like this is to carry on, right? Von Maur in Omaha is still open.

I go back and forth. Really, I don’t know how to feel. How does this make the victims feel? I really don’t know. First I think they shouldn’t reopen, then I think they should. Then I switch again.

It just surprises me and leaves me uncertain how to feel. I probably won’t go there, but I never went to that theater anyway even though I live in a town nearby. Regardless, they are reopening it. I guess that’s that.