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In reply to the discussion: Anyone notice all the para-military forces in Boston? [View all]djean111
(14,255 posts)bullets or be blown apart by stray bombs. The shelter in place seemed to be a request.
I would appreciate the same thing happening in my little town, if a terrorist was running around with a gun and possibly with a bomb or suicide vest. Plus no one knew if there were others besides him and his brother.
And is seems the sane thing to do if there is going to be a firefight - which there was. Why make law enforcement people have to choose between doing their jobs and trying not to hit civilians in the crossfire? Would you send your kids out to play in that situation?
And how should those "paramilitary" people have been outfitted? They were risking their lives.
Why not search people in this circumstance? Hard to tell just by looking if someone has any sort of bomb, these days.
So no, not bothered at all. Bostonians were not bothered either, as far as I can tell.