Let me start by saying I may be biased as I live in the city of Boston. This article is ridiculous and utterly worthless. There are glaringly obvious differenc

Let me start by saying I may be biased as I live in the city of Boston. This article is ridiculous and utterly worthless. There are glaringly obvious differences between a crazed shooter who goes on to commit suicide and an unknown criminal(s) with the demonstrated capability (and I'm not talking strictly technical) to plant and blow explosives. I firmly believe that in either case, were the assailants unknown, it would have resulted in a man-hunt. This article simultaneously exaggerates and undermines the efforts of the "man-hunt" that took place here and it's crass and insulting. Life here was largely uninterrupted by police action. The costs associated with the additional police action will, I'm certain, be greatly dwarfed by the damage directly caused by the bombings. The city was by no means shut down. Friday involved a voluntary lock-in that most people abided by out of respect, but that was it. The rest of the week was, by and large, business as usual. Do you not think a city would be at the least equivalently "locked-down" were an unknown shooter on the loose? And while we're here, I'm absolutely fed up with the kill-count being used as a speaking point. No one seems to acknowledge the medical tent 100 yards away, or the many world-class area hospitals (and the sheer number of physicians that live in the neighborhood that hosts the finish line) as the reason for a "mere" 3 deaths. In any case, who cares? The fact of the matter is this was a tragedy and, sure, in that sense it is not unique. It is fairly unique (at least, in the US) in the way that they executed and in the sense that there were two suspects on their way to being identified yet on the loose. That's what is notable here. And don't speak on behalf of the foreign world. They're doing a pretty good job of it themselves and I haven't heard much "looking on in astonishment" as the author has described it. John Cassidy, you're a hypocrite and a truly offensive human being.