Mine too.

It certainly was poor that people complained about the store being closed. I don’t know how they would have expected the staff to serve them on the day that this happened to one of their colleagues. Perhaps the people you refer to had not grasped the full extent of what happened.

I think you hit the nail right on the head in your comment about priorities – if lower prices are more important than public safety, then a rethink of priorities is long overdue.

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Many Americans are no doubt aghast that this happened in their country.

Nevertheless, I do not think that this event in a reflection upon your country in particular, I think it is more a reflection upon human nature in general.

It is a sad reality that people all over the world are susceptible to behavior which puts at risk the safety of others wherever there are decent sized crowds present. The conduct of some groups of English soccer fans over the years is a good example of this, as were the Australian race riots in 2006.

Perhaps part of the solution is for western nations to look at some of the conduct of some of the more peaceful Asian nations, such as Japan, Korea and China just to name a few.

It is often said that such nations should seek to become more like the Western world. However, I think that the process should not be one way, and that the western world could itself learn a thing or two by looking at these types of countries, particularly with reference to the low crime rates and low levels of violence.

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