Comments on: Northern Illinois School Shooting http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2008/02/15/northern-illinois-school-shooting/ Where There's Snow, There's Firepower Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:43:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: guy http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2008/02/15/northern-illinois-school-shooting/#comment-19239 guy Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:35:48 +0000 http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=2688#comment-19239 "rather than allow for the possibility that someone could do something about it." You really can't allow that line of thought. If you accept the fact that "a regular person" at the site could have done something to prevent or lessen the damage, then you might start to think that maybe you could have done something to help. You might even blame yourself for doing nothing. Much easier to just blame someone else - cops, legislators, the NRA, etc. “rather than allow for the possibility that someone could do something about it.”

You really can’t allow that line of thought. If you accept the fact that “a regular person” at the site could have done something to prevent or lessen the damage, then you might start to think that maybe you could have done something to help. You might even blame yourself for doing nothing.

Much easier to just blame someone else - cops, legislators, the NRA, etc.

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