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Originally Posted by Silver
why would people in boston be afraid of another attack? how many times have we seen consecutive bombings in developed parts of the world? why do you think the chances of another bomb going off in boston is higher than elsewhere?
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It's kind of like the whole "lightning doesn't strike the same place twice" mentality. Except then when it does, people panic.
Like 9/11...okay, so one plane hits one tower of the WTC. People are kind of like "wow that's awful" and not really knowing what happened, but in general are standing around watching, not expecting anything else to happen. Then suddenly a second plane comes and hits the second tower, and THEN the panic really sets in.
In Boston, there were two bombs. They happened much closer together than the WTC planes were when they hit, but still...bomb explodes, people are shocked, confused, barely started to regroup and suddenly it happens again. So if it happened again, who knows how many others might be out there, waiting to explode any second, just like the second explosion? If there was a second explosion, it's perfectly reasonable to believe there could be a third or fourth. By now, it's probably safe to say there isn't, but we don't know who is behind the attacks, and it isn't such a huge stretch to think that they might try something again, if not at the Boston marathon then at some other place with a huge crowd of people.
There is none of that fear/uncertainty with the Waco explosion. It's tragic, and it could happen at another fertilizer plant, but it was an accident that probably could have been prevented. In terms of the events themselves, I think the explosion would be much more terrifying to be stuck in the middle of, and it definitely has a higher death toll. But in terms of fear for what will happen in the future, that's the Boston marathon.