Yesterday, near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, two homemade bombs were set off. 3 people were killed, over a hundred injured, about 20 of those seriously. A horrible, horrible tragedy. Things like that are the product of deranged, angry people whose soul is so warped and cowardly that to stop them completely is likely impossible.
A few other thoughts about what happened...thoughts that are probably not popular, but hey, nobody reads this anyway.
1)The bombing was on 'tax day', April 15, and also recognized as 'patiots' day' in New England. I'm sure that it's been brought up by somebody but I've rarely heard it...does it not seem rather obvious that this was a symbolic day for somebody to show their government-hating bondafides?
2)Many people are comparing this to 9/11. Um, no. In that over 3000 people were killed after a huge organizational plot that was years in the making. This one killed 0.1% of the people in that attack and was likely the work of a lone lunatic. It was horrible, absolutely...but let's have some perspective. This wasn't even close to the OKC Murrah bombing, and likely not nearly as internationally traumatic as the Atlanta Olympics bombing.
3)Naturally, we are hearing now about how 'this changes everything'. We're going to have more concerns about security at sporting events, at theaters, at anywhere where there are public gatherings. But then, every few months somebody opens up with mega-weaponry in schools or post offices or from clock towers and kills ten times the number killed yesterday, and we say we should do nothing about it? We refuse to do anything to change the possibility of those situations in the name of 'rights'. We could do something about mass killings, but we're scared to death to confront a minority of the population with the fact that they have wholly misinterpreted the intent of the Constitution. About guns, we could make relevant and real attempts to cut down on the violence. But about things that we likely can do little to prevent, we continue pretending we can stop them with worthless, feel-good 'precautions'. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
