Guns & Boston Bombs: Is There Safety in Numbers?
Can we find the “safety pin” that keeps crowds and marathon runners together on our streets?
© Thinkstock (pins, runners); © Ingram Publishing (crowd)
This Week’s “Oh, I See” News Moment
The no vote on gun violence legislation collided with the terror attack at the Boston Marathon. Their coincidence tore at my sense of staying safe and left a rip waiting to be mended by something more than safety pins.
Playing the Odds on Terror Attacks
It used to be that we could step out in the world and expect to stay safe. But now there are questions:
Can my friends and I take in a movie?
Can kids go to school?
Can citizens stand in a peaceful parking lot to hear their elected representative speak?
Can spectators cheer runners at the next Boston Marathon?
Events of our day in Aurora, Newtown, Tucson, and now Boston make me think,...
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