You Don't Expect to Die at a Pop Concert. You Shouldn't Expect to Die at a Pop Concert.

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The terrorist attack at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester this evening deeply bothers me, maybe even more so than any other attack that's happened in recent years. Those were teenyboppers at that concert. Teenagers and preteens and children going to a pop show with their friends or parents. Young people with their whole lives stretched out ahead of them. And now their lives will never be the same. Nineteen are dead and at least 50 are injured. Those who survived will likely be scarred for life. Maybe it bothers me so much because I was once a teenybopper, and most of the characters in my stories are teenybopper girls obsessed with pop stars. You don't expect this type of thing to happen at a concert. You shouldn't have to worry about it happening, no matter what your age is. Nobody deserves to have this horror happen to them. Nobody should have to worry that they might get killed if they go to a concert -- or anywhere public. Or anywhere at all. This crap needs to stop. It's gone on long enough, and these types of attacks should never happen at all.