He didn't even have a gun in the boat , Yet the police riddled the boat WITH GUNFIRE

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184. I don't know whether he threw any of the bombs

I know this, from available evidence:

1) He brought a backpack bomb to the Boston Marathon, left it on the street, and exploded it (or knowing it would explode)
2) He accompanied his older brother - one or the other of them shot and killed an MIT police officer - authorities suggest it was the older brother; they attempted to get the gun from his holster and failed; authorities suggest that they were trying to procure a second gun through the act - they did not procure one.
3) He and his brother carjacked a civilian; the civilian witness states that the older brother had the firearm during the initial carjacking; no indications are that that changed
4) He and his brother were involved in a chase / firefight / bomb throwing event with Watertown police - in the images we have of the shootout, only one brother can b seen with a gun, and firing at police - that's the older brother; there are no images publicly available of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev firing a weapon at police. He may have thrown a bomb or these homemade grenades. It's not clear.
5) The older brother approached police firing the one weapon that has been recovered; he runs out of ammunition, and the police tackle him; younger brother gets in the stolen Mercedes and drives it at the police and his brother, scattering the police and running over and dragging his brother. He breaks through a barricade, travels some distance, then ditches the car - no evidence that he has a gun during this episode. Police recover the gun being fired by the older brother; it is the only gun they recover.
6) He is found in a boat the next day, apparently shot earlier. According to authorities, he has no gun with him in the boat.

That's what we know, I think. Correct me if I'm wrong in any of those reported elements of the narrative. As far as I can tell from the reported elements, there's no evidence that he had a gun at any point in the evening or the next day. Now, we can of course speculate that he had a gun during episoe 1), 2), 3), 4) and 5). For 6), clearly h did not. We can speculate that he had eight guns and a crossbow. Perhaps he carried an antique derringer. I don't know, you're right. But there's no evidence that he did, and the evidence we do have suggests he didn't. Why is this important? Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. I'm interested in the facts of the narrative - what actually happened. If others aren't, that's their prerogative.