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Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout
The chairman was trying to figure out what the gunman wanted, he was aware that the gunman's interests lied with his wife. That's why he kept going back to find out who his wife was, what she did, keep him focused on her.
By simply telling the gunman what he wanted to her he would have been dismissive, as evidenced by the person sitting next to the chairman that said he'd help his wife get a new job. He wasn't interested in that. We're not sure what he was interested in.
The argument you're talking about is over the raising of taxes. Not knowing if the chairman was right/wrong, I'll assume he did campaign on having sales tax to support public schools. If that's true, he was merely correcting the gunman's mistaken belief. Was that the right thing to do? At the time I think so, as the gunman was actually rather calm until he held up the gun and started pulling the trigger.
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I'm fairly certain the last thing you want to do to a pissed off, crazy dude with a gun is disagree with him.
With that many people in the room his best course of action would have been agreeing to whatever the hell the gunman wanted. If you cave into all of his demands maybe he'll leave - that is why he came in in the first place. At the very least it buys you time.