A massive manhunt and siege in West Texas now?

[JDPriestly]

46. Perhaps you did not understand the OP? Response to OneNote.

It is a cartoon. It is sarcasm. It takes a situation, depicts it by carrying the content of the situation to an extreme -- intentionally. It isn't supposed to be 100% "true." Its truth is on a higher level that requires the ability to understand metaphor, contrast and similarity. It is supposed to make you think.

The OP and its cartoon point out that the two situations, one in Boston and the other in West Texas, do have something in common. In each of them people died. In the West, Tex. situation far more damage was done and more people may have died than in the Boston one. And in each of those situations, the deaths were not due to natural causes, but to human conduct. So that is one similarity in the two situations.

Since the Boston one was "terrorism" or murder of the kind in which the "terrorist" or murderer is easily identified as a public enemy, as a criminal or worse, whereas the West Tex. situation involved people in suits who simply neglected to do their jobs or perhaps a criminally neglected to do their jobs or who were sloppy and permitted sabotage to happen, we get very excited about the "terrorism" and angry at the "terrorists" in Boston. We don't get nearly so upset and aren't nearly as interested in the deaths in West, Tex. Now maybe you are, but most Americans aren't as upset by the one as by the other.

We spend enormous amounts of money and energy investigating murders and terrorist acts if they are done with bombs or guns.

We spend next to nothing on enforcing regulations that could make chemical companies such as the one in West Tex. safe for their employees and surrounding communities.

The message is we should do more about passing and enforcing regulations such as those governing fertilizer companies.

Now I've said in six paragraphs what the cartoon tells you in a glance.

I think the cartoon is very effective. I think there are people who criticize the cartoon because they don't like or agree with its message.

Let's use our intelligence here please. The OP is great in my opinion.