We are now a month away from Christmas and for many that means, black Friday. Something that I was not overly familiar about but apparently every other person in America is. Black Friday is a day of the year a month before christmas and most of the stores in America (and now Canada) have crazy sales on all of there merchandise. Sales prices range from 10-90% off there store items and people go absolutely crazy! Watching the news tonight for about five minutes I was able to see just a bit of the madness that happens on this day. People take days off school and work and line up in front of there favourite stores a day before it opens. This year it seems to be out of control. There was a lady who brought pepper spray and sprayed her way through the crowds of people to get the items she wanted. There are people in the hospital in critical condition because they have been shot by others because of what they purchased.
I do not understand this at all. This is supposed to be a fun day for people to get a good discount off of whatever they wanted to to start there holiday shopping. Not a day that results in people sending other people to the hospital. Some police officers say that they were expecting worse that it was too.
I think that this is sad. Out of all the things that are wrong with our world and all of the reasons worth fighting for; this surly isn't one of them. People need to take a look at this and realize that there are things that might be worth fighting over, but a shopping day is not one of them. Absolutely ridiculous.
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