Guardian: Why does America lose its head over 'terror' but ignore its daily gun deaths?
"The thriving metropolis of Boston was turned into a ghost town on Friday. Nearly a million Bostonians were asked to stay in their homes – and willingly complied. Schools were closed; business shuttered; trains, subways and roads were empty; usually busy streets eerily resembled a post-apocalyptic movie set; even baseball games and cultural events were cancelled – all in response to a 19-year-old fugitive, who was on foot and clearly identified by the news media.
The actions allegedly committed by the Boston marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his brother, Tamerlan, were heinous. Four people dead and more than 100 wounded, some with shredded and amputated limbs.
But Londoners, who endured IRA terror for years, might be forgiven for thinking that America over-reacted just a tad to the goings-on in Boston. They're right – and then some. What we saw was a collective freak-out like few that we've seen previously in the United States. It was yet another depressing reminder that more than 11 years after 9/11 Americans still allow themselves to be easily and willingly cowed by the "threat" of terrorism."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/21/boston-marathon-bombs-us-gun-law
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Thanks for writing them. 
Sadly, you are 100% correct. 
Insane NRA logic.
therewith, but to be afraid, very afraid, to wallow cowardly in the face of/the very thought of terrorism which serves to feed a burgeoning $5 trillion industry, all the while pols maneuver to cut social security benefits. 
People kill each other, and the reasons are personal, emotional, business, or some combination of the three.
Let's not forget that we're also ignoring the daily non-gun deaths, too. And the rapes, and the child molestation, and the beatings of children and spouses, and the animal abuse, and the stabbings and kidnappings and torturing and all the other non-political crime that is part of daily life in any concentration of humans.
Why? It's not political. When a man murders because of a cheating wife, it is most emphatically NOT because of the oppression of his people at the hands of the Pentagon, or because his family was wiped out in a drone strike, or because the CIA installed an oil-friendly brutal dictator that tortured his nation.
Motive matters. A drug dealer killed by a drug user was not the drug user waging war on the US government or the people that supports it and funds it.
A radialicalized Christian blowing up an abortion clinic, a radicalized Muslim blowing up a baseball game, a radicalized libertarian blowing up an IRS building, a radicalized anti-federalist blowing up a federal building, a radicalized racist blowing up a black church, a radicalized environmentalist blowing up an SUV dealership... those are all political, and we all fear those much more than drug dealers and betrayed lovers. Because political ideas can become movements that can grow to millions of people and affect everybody.
There's never going to be a mass movement of betrayed lovers slaughtering their cheating spouses, or of drug users rising up and slaughtering their drug dealers.
But a rising up of Christians or Muslims or libertarians or anti-federalists or racists or environmentalists? Yeah, that's a possibility. That kind of rising up can lead to prolonged campaigns of terror, insurgency, even revolution or civil war.
Minimizing what happened in Boston is NOT the way to constructively talk about gun policies.
A coworker lost his wife on Easter Sunday morning because some useless piece of shit was upset about being bounced from a Southfield nightclub. There are some really clear photographs of "persons of interest" circulating, but last time I checked, no new news.
http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2013/04/southfield_police_seek_persons.html
Somebody knows something, but the "Stop Snitchin'" mentality is keeping a killer (or killers) on the street, where they are free to take someone else's wife / husband / mother / father / child away.
Guns and egos - nothing but tragedy waiting to happen.
Do you understand Detroit saw 400+ murders, and has a population that's less than a third of Chicago's?
Mutually Assured Destruction, from not imagined, or suspected nuclear weapons, but thousands of them, all aimed at us.
The way our government now behaves, at home and abroad, economically, and militarily, especially since 911 is very disconcerting.
Good article, thanks for sharing 
