re: #4 austin_blue

Three people are killed and a police officer are killed in Boston and the country goes batshit, but eight first responders and seven other people are killed in an industrial accident are killed in West, Texas and the country goes “meh”.

Odd, innit?

The explosion in West has significantly higher consequences for our nation as a whole than what happened in Boston, but is significantly less ‘newsworthy’ by the American public’s fickle attention span.

I would be surprised if there aren’t some Republicans and/or industrial folks that are very thankful that Boston sucked up the national media attention. It saved them a whole bunch of uncomfortable conversations about zoning and industrial regulations.