It was ever so, and will always remain so. Whoever was behind yesterday's attack in Boston reminds us of this unavoidable fact.
This is a fact that makes a lot of people uncomfortable, just like a shooting at a school makes a lot of people uncomfortable. There's a desire for order and predictability, an escape from chaos, that drives many towards erecting great stone rings, or pyramids, or enacting gun control laws, or the USA PATRIOT Act.
But when all that activity dies down, when "something" is accomplished (no matter what the something might be) the cold fact remains. The world is filled with soft targets. It ever was so, and ever will be.
Say a prayer for the dead and wounded, hug your kids, and know that the world remains chaotic and evil sometimes walks among us. You can be ready to react to that or not.
It's unfortunate we need it, but thanks for that phrase. It sums up what I've been trying, and failing, to get across to many friends and family over the years.
ReplyDelete+1 Well-stated, and oh-so-very-sad that it even needs to be said. For all those I know who made it home safe from the area, and to those suffering from the events, I pray, and continue to learn and prepare to be ready.
ReplyDeleteWhich is why, as I have been telling people for years, all of this post 9-11 security theater is all smoke and mirrors.
ReplyDeleteWell said my friend.
ReplyDeleteAmen. There are only two ways to harden more targets:
ReplyDelete1, give up more freedoms. I'm not willing to go that route.
2, more CHL carriers, hightened awareness for questionable activities when in soft-target areas, and an understanding that there is no way to completely protect against evil. But we can make the cost of doing evil exorbitantly high.