04-17-2013, 11:03 PM
stanc Wrote:Was just watching FauxNews, where they mentioned something to the effect that the marathon was honoring the victims of the Newtown shooting. It's not completely inconceivable that a pro-gun radical might have targeted the race to demonstrate that banning AR15s and large-capacity magazines won't prevent mass murder. If that was indeed the purpose, the target makes perfect sense, especially since the event is televised.
Now that's quite a stretch. It would require not only a gun rights terrorist, but a loony one as well. Might as well say that the JFK library was targeted because his murder helped to usher in the 1968 gun control act.
I suppose that it IS possible, but, man, that connection is thin!