[NEWS] Explosions near Boston Marathon Finish Line (UPDATE: MIT/Watertown shootout w/ suspects)

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Beat me to it. Marshall had a plan, but I don't think he has a law.

 

Maybe, I don't know. Cannot rule it out. However I can say that I do not think that Texas would be as trusting of the authorities.

 

We already seen this wanna be hero behavior in Texas. I can't even imagine what it would've been like if an attack of this scale happened in Texas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Horn_shooting_controversy

 

where is this? on arsenal st.?

 

Yep. All those trigger happy wanna be heroes and stupid cops that just kill people is why Texas has such a low prison population! Commit a crime in Texas, get killed.

As proven by no statistics whatsoever.

 

It's amazing how Texas hasn't been thrown out of the Union what with being the only state where people have ever been shot before.

 

Marshall Dillon was the law in Dodge City.

 

I dont think that relying on a single event years ago would necessarily dictate how Texas would react. Having said that, I am pretty sure that Texans would not be so quick to allow authorities to lock down the city. It isn't a "hero mentality" always, there is also an element of freedoms.

Having said that, it would be an interesting social experiment.

 

Not only did he have the law, he had Festus too.

 

We kind of already saw what happened in LA earlier this year. I will say that the Boston PD (along with the Feds) handled this about as well as could be expected. How the younger one escaped is still baffling, but it's good to see no innocent people getting hurt by law enforcement.

 

Houston would be significantly harder to "lock down" due to the nature of our city. Boston is considered a big city, but it is not some sprawling urban center like Houston with suburbs all over the place.

I'm amused by this Texas mocking that is emerging though. Texas police agencies catch criminals all the time without killing them or having them killed by some vigilante. We've even had people kill more than 3 people in Texas that got caught alive!

 

Very true. Along with the Boston chest-thumping, there has been a large group of people clamoring about how Boston's views on gun control are why the bombers were caught. There are even some people giving a direct correlation between the LACK of guns, or enthusiasm to USE guns by the population in Boston and the capture of the bombers. It's odd, and little unnerving to see just how willing people are to divide themselves over something like this. Could the owner of the boat, upon seeing Tsarnaev hiding out, gone over there with a rifle? Sure. Was that LESS likely to happen because it was Boston? That's impossible to say.

 

Devils advocate:

The police failed to capture suspect #2 on the night of the MIT killing and even abandoned pursuit.

The authorities decided to limit their perimeter to 20 square blocks, believing that a 19 year old on adrenaline would not go beyond that area in a 6 hour time span.

The authorities failed to find suspect #2 even though they had 9,000 officers.

The authorities reopened the city at a press conference, and 10 minutes later suspect was discovered by a citizen less than a mile from the press conference.

There were reports that the boat at issue had been inspected by the authorities earlier, and then it was changed to that it was outside their perimeter.

There were clothes, a bag, blood and the wrap around the boat had been opened, and authorities never noticed.

..........

So it is easy to sit back and judge, but looking from the outside I am not so sure that the authorities did that great a job.

 

Not exactly relying on a single event. More relying on observations and experiences, like how came with your conclusion that Texans would not be so trusting of authorities. The single event merely gives an example.

We are talking about two separate issues however its possible the people who stress freedom also may be more likely to try taking matters into their own hands.

 

Somehow this narrative has gotten out there that a place like Texas is just some crazy gun zone where you are putting your life on the line any time you look at someone.

The reason the Joe Horn story got so much attention was because of how rare it was.

 

This isn't a direct reply to your post, but someone in D&D mentioned all these points to and this was my reply:

 

Your last sentence is incredibly ignorant and shows a woeful lack of understanding regarding other cultures. I have multiple ESL friends who can write a sentence EXACTLY like that- many ESL individuals have been learning English at a young age and can write very well- I've seen it first-hand. You really need to experience the world and gain a better understanding of it, sir.

 

Yep yep. The standard your ignorant about foreigners line. Go experience the world. blah blah blah.

I work with ESL people everyday, I am not ignorant of them. Spare me the condescension.

 

But you feel that no ESL person could possibly have written that sentence. Why wouldn't they be able to?