This was a tragic event. For once I am glad that I was gone all week because I wouldn't have been able to keep silent after the insightful posts from Wichita.
This thread didn't need me adding my own tripe.
One thing that makes you wonder. There are much worse tragedies around the world every day than this event, yet it got way more media.
Although I do not think that numbers should dictate importance, IE only 32 got killed at VT but 140 died the same week in Iraq was it? But there was just way to much importance delegated to this.
Yes, it was bad, but only when compared to recent other events in the US. Not globally.
/me bows head for all the peoples whom have died needlessly this year.... 
Don't get the feeling that I am trying to trivialize this. Far be it. We each need to take it in as important a way that each of us feels is warranted.
I do know how you feel. The kid Adam Walsh was killed just down the road from our home In Okeechobee Florida.
So, I know how tragedy in a local sense feels.
I have no idea what you just said. I read the words, but cannot decide whom they are pointed at.
I would like to consider myself a fair person, with regards to people dying whom are doing nothing more wrong than living in a certain place that got hit by a tragedy.
Anywho, I really don't want to degrade to a mud sling just because there are more people dying in another country than my own, and I happen to value them dying as highly as people dying here.
And if one of those 'drops' was your brother or sister? Still insignificant?
I didn't know any of the victims, but I do feel for those they left behind. Your lack of compassion is kinda unsettling. Cynicism or not, it doesn't mean you can't appreciate that somewhere someone is hurting because of this incident.
I was thinking something similar. Its not 33 people for Snickers, its 33 of the wrong people.
As in 33 people he has never met, now will he not ever now.
Realistically speaking, its hard to get to overly worked up about people you don't know. Look at doctors. For the most part they aren't allowed to work on their own family and friends because its harder to be objective. There's a reason anonymity works so well. Babies are killed every day using the exact same procedure. 
