When I woke up this morning and turned on the TV for an update I quickly learned about the huge shootout with the marathon bomb suspects that took place over night in the Watertown area. The suspects left a trail of devistation and death throughout the area, allegedly shooting an MIT campus police officer in the head, killing him, injuring a transit officer in a firefight and throwing explosive devices at police during their getaway attempt. One of the suspects was killed in the shootout. The Associated Press has reported the suspects as coming from Chechnya. The surviving suspect has been identied as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old who had been living in Cambridge, Mass area for several years. I googled him and I found several comments he posted on a blog in 2011.
(http://umdfyebookblink.wordpress.com/2011/08/19/thin-slicing-turns-tragic/).
The comments he posted sounded reasonably intelligent and rational with no indication of anger or hate. Tsarnaev was awarded a student scholarship by Cambridge in 2011. That year someone with this name was a wrestling "all-star" in the Cambridge Rindge and Greater Boston League. So what changed in the 2 years since then? Will we ever be understand what causes people to commit these acts of violence? How does somebody go from living a somewhat normal life to committing death and destruction? You can never be sure what a person is really about unless you get to know them at great length yet someone apparrently sold them or gave them an arsenal of weapons. Would there be any indication of the path of violence these monsters would ultimately follow if a background check had been done? We may never know but maybe the FBI should do the background checks on these suspest now and see what comes up?
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