Article 5FQ0D ‘We don’t live in a safe world’: Boulder in shock and disbelief over shooting

‘We don’t live in a safe world’: Boulder in shock and disbelief over shooting

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Josiah Hesse
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The Colorado city is considered by many to be a safe oasis - but some residents say there's a darker side that often isn't spoken of

Following the shooting in a Boulder, Colorado, grocery store on Monday, leaving 10 dead including a police officer, the community of this liberal mountain town are in a state of shock and disbelief, experiencing the all-too-common identity crisis experienced by so many American cities in the wake of a mass shooting.

I've called this community home for most of my life, and I've shopped at that King Soopers many times," Colorado's governor, Jared Polis, said on Tuesday morning during a press conference.

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