The day after the Boston bombings, I was working from home and called my parents while I was making lunch, since I wanted to find out what they thought.
My mom said that she saw a news report where all the major cities were under alerts, like New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
"Los Angeles?", my mom was like, "Really?"
"What?", I was like.
"Give me a break," she said. "It's not even a city, and if something happens there, someone will always step in to make movies. If you have to put a city on high alert, make it San Francisco, it's so much prettier."
She and my dad are also thinking that the bomber may have been a rightwing gun nut.
"You wouldn't believe some of the people that we get in the library," she was like, "And if we have a handful here, you know that they're everywhere."
She then said that just last week, this one (white) guy she knows by sight came in to request that the library order some book, and he talked to the library director, who told him that if they started ordering that series of books, they'd have to order "all the other side" as well, and it would be just too much of an outlay.
It turns out that the book series was some conspiracy theory series, which my mom didn't elaborate, but I'm assuming was a kind of socialism - New World Order - "They're trying to take our guns away" kind of thing.
"[The head librarian's first name]" turned to me when he left," my mom said, "And she said, 'That is one angry man.' You have no idea how many people like that are out there."
She then added that Bill O'Reilly books fly off the shelves "even though I don't think he writes them, how does he have time, and he even says he has a ghostwriter," and that people like him just stir up hate and make money off all the people who get riled up and don't see how it's a business.
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