Michelle Mallari of Washington state is lucky to be alive. She went to see a movie in Renton; the movie “13 Hours.”

She got shot. Fortunately, she survived but she might go around with a bullet in her shoulder as a souvenir of going to the movies in America.

Dane Gallion of Newcastle went to the very same movie. Gallion was afraid of mass shootings at movies. He also had a concealed-pistol license and a problem with alcohol. Gallion did not get shot, but Mallari ended up with his bullet lodged in her shoulder because the NRA thinks it’s more important for a paranoid man with a problem with alcohol to have a right to a gun than for Mallari to have the right not to get shot at the movies.

America is really weird and strange.

Karen Hedwig Backman, Federal Way