Massacre site triggered me
Me and my family are on vacation right now. We passed a historic sight in Utah about the Mountain Meadows Massacre, and it really affected me. All those poor people shot and beaten to death, just because the Mormons didn’t like foreigners on their land. Anyone above 6 years old was killed, right in front of each other. The 17 children that survived were taken and forced to live in Mormon families.
That alone put me in a dark mood. But then I looked up more about it online and it was actually way worse. Accounts from survivors that witnessed their family being shot or clubbed to death in front of them, and accounts from one of the murderers about seeing a 10 year old girl covered in blood and running for her life before being shot down, and raping two girls who begged for their lives especially scared me.
How can people be so fucking heartless?? Most of the people killed were just little kids and women. They were clinging to each other and screaming and crying before being murdered. The thought of it has been bothering me all day and I feel depressed and panicky now. I feel like it’s going to happen to me too, despite the fact it happened in the 1800s. How can people be so cruel.