should nola.com take down picture of 5 year old girl that was shot
If we treated these shooters like Boston did that bomber, after a couple big man hunts, these guys would stop or move on.
First, I don't think it's true that it would stop.
Secondly, I don't like the casual suggestion that we use that type of force or show of force. Police officers in homes. SWAT teams combing neighborhoods. Armored vehicles rolling down the streets. Too close to a police state for me. I don't know that what's gained (actual or perceived) is worth the privacy that would be given up.
After working with the kids who assume police presence in their neighborhoods and accepted it as fact, a way of life, I can't get behind increasing it to the degree we saw in Watertown as a reasonable solution.
As for the photograph, I can see people objecting to it. I can understand the sentiment.
But similar events are happening, on wider scales, thanks to drones and aggression overseas being conducted by US forces. Agree with the purpose and methods behind the war or not, there's death of innocents/innocence. Those people and communities aren't being spared atrocities and I think being made to face it, ourselves, is necessarily a bad thing.
It's sad and it's tragic. Whether we're facing the death toll of children at the hands of drones a world away or the ones at birthday parties in our backyard.