I am truly shocked at the amount of attention this is being given. A small scale terrorist act has succeeded greater than anyone had ever imagined. I’m not making the decisions in Boston, and I don’t pretend to know better than the experts but I do know that the terrorists have already won based on the reaction. I’ve seen manhunts on television here in the twin cities, but never imagined that a total lockdown would ever happen.
I am truly saddened for the victims that this directly affected and would never want to see this kind of thing happen near home or to any of my friends or family.
Maybe it’s the weather, but this whole deal has me really ticked off. The media feels the need to make sure we are glued to our tvs 24-7, and for what? Do I reall need to know that another house was searched and found to be clear? I know I’m going to tick a lot people off with this, but so be it.
This is exactly way these guys wanted, they succeeded and now they won’t be taken alive. No different than these people that snap and take out as many people as possible. All we are doing is feeding the beast.
We live in a great country where we don’t have to worry about these things. The government can put all kinds of policies in place to reduce our freedom only to see another act find a loophole. The only way to reduce these things is to create a culture that looks after each other. Too many of us are already asking what our government is going to do for us now.
I say, what can we do to help?