I am only one person, but I've got something to get off my chest.
The Boston Marathon bombing. The West, TX fertilizer plant explosion. People were injured. People died.
Senseless tragedies.
Tensions are running high. Industry and political know-it-alls are pointing fingers at various organizations (political, financial, or other) when the investigations have just barely started.
Enough already!
This is not the time to accuse your perceived enemies when you have no direct evidence to back up those accusations.
This is not the time to try to further your agenda by using these tragedies as your "proof of argument."
Only selfish, low-life, snake-in-the-grass opportunists would take advantage of people's fear and frustration for their own benefit. This applies to everyone from the homeless man, to the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, to the housewife or stay-at-home dad, to the President of the United States. EVERYONE!
We need to put aside our differences and find out the ones who truly committed these murders.
We need to put aside our differences and help those who have been victimized by these tragedies.
We need to put aside our differences and learn from what has happened so that we may be ableR to become a stronger and more resiliant group of citizens.
Generating fear and/or taking advantage of what it does to people serves no one but the person doing it. So to all those "experts" out there who have been speculating, theorizing, or finger-pointing toward those who the experts claim are the cause or contributing factors of these two events, I have only one thing to say to you:
SHUT UP AND BACK OFF!!!
Thank you for your time; I'll get off my soapbox now.
