Your right they should have let the maybe become a reality? Then pick up the pieces later? Which is it? Stop it before (maybe) or wait till its over and people are dead? Just not happy either way...
Something happened! Quick, pass a new law!
Something didn't happen! Quick, pass a new law!
Something almost happened! Quick, pass a new law!
Something could have happened! Quick, pass a new law!
A law worked! Quick, pass a new law!
A law didn't work! Quick, pass a new law!
^^ that's the crap we object to.