Cariol Horne started her morning outside the Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, placing white roses at a colorful memorial to the 10 Black people slain there two months ago by a white gunman.
Yet even Horne carries the mixed emotions of seemingly everyone in the community, where the store has doubled as a gathering spot for two decades. It took six months for a movie theatre to reopen in Aurora, Colorado, after a mass shooter killed 12 people there in 2012. That was one theatre in a 16-screen suburban cineplex.
Tops President John Persons said Thursday that the company began hearing from customers, community members and civic leaders the day after the May 14 shooting. Almost immediately, the company started running a free shuttle from the neighbourhood to other Tops stores. "Everything you see here was taken down to the bare walls," Persons said. "It's all fresh product. This is all new equipment. All throughout, from the ceiling to the floor has been repainted or redone."
What calmed her were the water fountains flanking a memorial and poem displayed in tribute to the shooting victims. At the base of the fountain, a sign reads, "To respect the requests of some of the victims' loved ones names are not included on this memorial." "No one's come door to door to ask the people, who live within a mile, or four blocks, or even two blocks of Tops, `Are you comfortable with this? What do you want here?"' said David Louis, another activist who, like Horne, recognizes that others miss not just the goods on Tops' shelves but the good in its aisles.
People can't just stop living, people need the food to survive. Instead of complaining why don't you guys bitch about gun laws and how that's handled vs a business reopening to feed people.
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