JCC Two explosions at Boston Marathon

It was some lone (probably white) crazy dude who wanted to take out a random convenient public event. But as always, the reaction to this attack will be far worse than the attack itself.

 

The Boston Marathon's pretty famous...

 

i had alpha. it's probably one of the more famous ones out there, really.

and this is just... words fail for this kind of sickening stupidity.

 

Because the Marathon is THE thing to do in Boston. It's like Jazzfest in New Orleans. Large crowds, generally peaceful.

 

considering its the right wing foreign policy that has gotten most of the terrorists to hate us anyway. Theyre a classic bunch those neo cons..

 

I mean, who had heard of the Olympics before the Atlanta bombing? I sure didn't.

 

It's an international event, for one thing, with reporters from all over the world covering it. Virtual guarantee not only of videos of the event, but professional videos of the event.

 

It's a pretty big deal in Boston, since today is the Patriot's Day holiday there (the Red Sox always play a 11am home game every year on this day). So people have heard about it for many years.

 

I really do hate to bring politics into this but I wondered how long before I heard or read a pro-gun spin on this story.
It happened with my very 1st workplace conversation about it (ah Texas).
Really, can we wait until the bodies are cold before trying to leverage the story for our little hobby horse?

 

Seriously? It's an international event, one of the biggest events in the nation. You never heard of it before??

 

A lot of people?

 

Wow, racism at play. Whew. Seriously. Shove it.

 

If only an armed citizen had been there to shoot the explosions.

 

Yeah, the Boston Marathon's massive - people come from all corners of the globe to participate.

 

So someone said that if they'd been there, they would have shot the bomber before he set the bombs?

 

Grain of salt Juliet. I've heard everything from "too many damn Koreans love their Hitler boy" to "god another McVeigh".

And I do remember people doing the same thing to Bush during 9/11, simply because because they had AF1 hop-scotching around the country for his safety.

 

Not really down with twitter, over here. Who do you guys follow for updates?

 

The Boston Marathon may not be the Super Bowl but it's a huge deal.

 

If only an assault weapons ban had been in place to keep these people from getting killed. Seriously, is that where this thread is headed?

 

On CNN they say well over 100 injured. Lucky authorities found some of the others so more weren't needlessly injured

 

No, it was the predictable, "See, if a crazy person doesn't have a gun, they'll find some other way."
Ah yes, therefore there is no point trying to control access to deadly weapons, got it.