I work in Waltham (which is directly adjacent to Watertown) and it never even occurred to me to want a gun. Aside from the people hurt in the bombing, no civili

I work in Waltham (which is directly adjacent to Watertown) and it never even occurred to me to want a gun. Aside from the people hurt in the bombing, no civilians were injured. The police did their jobs admirably and having morons like me running around with guns would have made it harder for them. We saw what vigilante justice looks like on reddit, 4chan, and dozens of other places where hundreds of people were falsely accused of being terrorists. What would have happened if the digital lynch mob had been a physical one instead? How many innocent people would they have killed? Compare that with the professionals who quickly identified and apprehended the suspects without a single civilian being injured.