Sometimes, things happen that just make you want to speak out. This is one of those times. On Black Friday, a very unfortunate incident occured that caused the death of a temporary Walmart employee. It was unthinkable to me that people could have such low esteem for the sanctity of life that they would first, trample someone to death trying to save a few bucks and next, have to be escorted out of the store by police instead of leaving upon the insistence of store personnel due to the death of one of their own.

Now, to top it off, we, as a society relieve the perpetrators of any blame and point the finger at the store and others responsible for the advertising. I don’t blame the family – they lost a love one and in their grief, they would like someone to be held accountable since no suspects can be determined. I also believe retailers certainly need to re-evaluate their policies concerning door buster type sales. But don’t we, as a society need to re-evaluate how much we care about others around us and quit allowing ourselves to be so driven by the advertising to which we are exposed to the extent that it causes a fatality?

We need to take back the responsibility for our own actions and quit trying to find other people to blame. People who are overweight or who have overweight children due to eating too much junk food need to stop blaming advertisers and just say no, I’m not going to eat that or no, I’m not going to let my kid eat that. So where are those who pushed and shoved so much to get into the store and broke open the doors, causing the trampling? Take responsibiltiy and quit being so cowardly hiding behind anominity.