Boston Marathon Explosion

[Ian]

This is bad.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-boston-marathon-explosion-20130415,0,641755.story

[PG_Gabriel]

One of my best friends dad, and my tack coach were running. . My friend was watching the race near by the explosion, He his dad and my coach are all ok though. Just a terrible situation. My thoughts go out to those who didn't make it, and those who were injured.

[Dare]

I've wondered for years when will something like this happen at
a sporting event

[lkjohnson1950]

I can't believe no one walked a bomb dog along the route. ABC had so many conflicting reports about dead and injured and whether or not there were more bombs You couldn't tell what was actually happening.

[Scott]

New reports are stating 3 dead and more than 130 injured.  As well a third blast reported near the JFK Library.  Just tragic.  Some forums are suggesting it might be homegrown and in conjunction with tax day.

[Wizzo]

This is terrible, my thoughts go out to the poor people who have lost their lives or been injured.

A sad day for sport in general.

Wiz

[cosworth151]

It was not only tax day, it was the Massachusetts state holiday of Patriots Day. It commemorates the battles of Lexington & Concord, the start of the American Revolution. That is why the race is held on that day.

The course of the race winds 26 miles through Boston. Tens of thousands of people attend. Total security would be impossible. With so many people in such a confined space, I'm just glad that it wasn't even worse that it was.

[Ian]

I see they've captured the other scumbag, they should have crippled him and then poured a couple of gallons of petrol over him and set him alight.

[Irisado]

I see they've captured the other scumbag, they should have crippled him and then poured a couple of gallons of petrol over him and set him alight.

In which case they would be no better than he is, so that's hardly a good way of solving the problem.

I'm pleased that they captured him alive, and that nobody else got caught up in a running gun battle, as that was my fear.

[Ian]

As far as I'm concerned, anybody who sets off a bomb without caring what happens is not a human being. So why should they be treated like one. An eye for an eye I say!

[Dare]

As far as I'm concerned, anybody who sets off a bomb without caring what happens is not a human being. So why should they be treated like one. An eye for an eye I say!

What worries me Ian is how many more like them are
still in our countryt and yours?

[Ian]

Too many Dare, too many.

[lkjohnson1950]

They wanted him alive to get some answers: Were they acting alone or part of a group, what were they trying to accomplish, where did they learn to make IEDs etc? How did 2 guys everyone says were kind and gentle people become terrorists?

[Ian]

The same way they do over here and other places Lonny, they get radicalized by extremists.

[Alonsofan]

The same way they do over here and other places Lonny, they get radicalized by extremists.

Unfortunately you are right Ian