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by IANAL
Sat Apr 20, 2013 7:01 pm
Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
Topic: Salon.com: "Let’s hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white
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Re: Salon.com: "Let’s hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a w

If you look at the difference between Obama's reaction to the deaths from the explosions in Boston, and his reaction to the deaths from the explosion in West, it's brutally obvious that he's only concerned about deaths that let him push his political agenda.

To look at it another way, if we optimistically assume people live to 100, then 1% of the population dies every year. The Boston metropolitan area has a population around 4.5 million. 1% of that is 45,000 per year or 123 on an average day. Nobody is denying the attack by the Tsarnaeva brothers was an atrocity, but the political reaction seems motivated by the hope it could be blamed on a domestic "militia" and therefore exploited to violate the civil rights of average Americans.

That's probably the real reason many at Salon were hoping the bombers were white guys.

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