Boston reactions
Apr. 24th, 2013 03:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arduinnaI keep writing up posts about last week in Boston, then deleting them for an excess of rantiness. But I also don't seem to be able to move past writing up that kind of post.
So I will just say, in short:
I am so impressed with how everything got handled in Boston this last week, from the reaction at the Marathon to the systematic search on Friday. And I'm so proud of the citizenry as well, for doing everything possible to help, both the victims, the stranded runners/visitors, and the police. I've been choked up since last Monday at the outpouring of support from pretty much everywhere, too; weirdly (since I'm not really a sports fan), especially from sports teams from all over, and especially especially New York. *hugs New York*
And at the same time, I am so angry at people who weren't here using this as an excuse to push "assault weapons are awesome and what we really need is a heavily armed citizenry ready to shoot anything that moves" agendas, or effectively telling the people of Boston that they should be ashamed of coming together as a community to help the police find Dzhokhar Tsarnaev after he rampaged through our streets throwing bombs out his car windows and shooting up residential neighborhoods. (I have literally seen someone calling everyone who stayed indoors "docile sheep". Fuck you, asshole.)
*deep breath*
Okay, that took five days to get down to a plus-and-minus set of paragraphs. Now maybe I can move on to fannish things. Which I will take to another post, so as not to mix it up with the RL stuff...
So I will just say, in short:
I am so impressed with how everything got handled in Boston this last week, from the reaction at the Marathon to the systematic search on Friday. And I'm so proud of the citizenry as well, for doing everything possible to help, both the victims, the stranded runners/visitors, and the police. I've been choked up since last Monday at the outpouring of support from pretty much everywhere, too; weirdly (since I'm not really a sports fan), especially from sports teams from all over, and especially especially New York. *hugs New York*
And at the same time, I am so angry at people who weren't here using this as an excuse to push "assault weapons are awesome and what we really need is a heavily armed citizenry ready to shoot anything that moves" agendas, or effectively telling the people of Boston that they should be ashamed of coming together as a community to help the police find Dzhokhar Tsarnaev after he rampaged through our streets throwing bombs out his car windows and shooting up residential neighborhoods. (I have literally seen someone calling everyone who stayed indoors "docile sheep". Fuck you, asshole.)
*deep breath*
Okay, that took five days to get down to a plus-and-minus set of paragraphs. Now maybe I can move on to fannish things. Which I will take to another post, so as not to mix it up with the RL stuff...
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Date: 2013-04-24 09:50 pm (UTC)