Townshend doesn't feel responsible and he shouldn't. But you can clearly see that he is appauled at himself for the way he handled it. If you read between the lines, there are apologies all through those excerpts.

When That crazy guy shot up the Aurora Colorado theater, it wasn't Christian Bale's fault was it? Yet the man took time out of his schedule and visited the families and victims in the hospital. He also issued this statement:

"Words cannot express the horror that I feel. I cannot begin to truly understand the pain and grief of the victims and their loved ones, but my heart goes out to them."

It's not an apology but it is an appropriate way to act when something that you are personally involved in has been the catalyst in several deaths.


Jack's case is way more personal because he was actually there and shouldn't have had his head in the sand about the pyro show. I am not a club manager or band manager but I have enough sense to know that you can't shoot fire in a small place like that.

I have done some research and I can't find ANY soothing or sorrowful words that he has given to the families of those who died or the ones that suffered injuries. He did not visit anybody in the hospital as far as I can tell and basically distanced himself from the tragedy.

Again - THIS IS NOT AN APPROPRIATE WAY TO BEHAVE. It looks like he doesn't give a damn.

Alot of you don't believe he owes them an apology for the fire but he sure owes them one now for not getting more involved with trying to console people after the fire. When a ship goes down, the captain isn't supposed to leave town and ignore the families of his crew members that died. Jack created Great White, he built it, everyone that died was there to see him and a tragedy happened on his watch...

It's not time to be far removed, it's time to be the leader and do everything in your power to console and help the victims REGARDLESS if it was his fault or not.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/22/2013 05:21AM by Captain Can Man.