‘Joker’ Is The Conversation We Need To Have About Violence

“Took Me By Surprise” by Phil Dunne is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

It says something about the state of our society when a security guard is checking your purse at a movie theater.

I’d heard rumors about these safety measures leading up to the release of Joker and wondered, what’s the point? Is this really necessary? Is a repeat of the Aurora, CO shooting at a showing of The Dark Knight a real threat? Is that reason enough to be…