<p>If you want to get your blood pressure up, listen to the crackpots spouting theories from “Sheeple! Our own guvmint did it” to “The Muslims did it, bomb them all.”</p>
<p>Unbelievable.</p>
<p>On the good side, it was fascinating on Reddit yesterday, thousands of posters contributing their photos or info on the same two that the FBI released pix of. Crowdsourcing the investigation.</p>
<p>Then you have the people asking why the FBI only released THOSE two photos. What don’t they want us to see??? <em>facepalm</em></p>
<p>What I can’t understand is how the government gives money to these terrorists to attend college and our children cant get a dime it is outright bull. I’m feed up with it .I am beginning to wake up</p>
<p>People see what they want to see. I completely disagree. They’re a completely different ethnicity. One was Saudi. The other is – literally – Caucasian. </p>
<p>By the way, I just heard an interview with a high school classmate of the younger one, who said that she and her friends all immediately recognized him when the pictures were released yesterday, but assumed that they must be mistaken. She said she’d known him since they were 14, and that he wasn’t by any means the stereotypical “brooding loner” type. He had friends, he seemed normal, etc., etc. From what I’ve read, it’s entirely possible that his older brother was the one who was ideologically committed, and may have radicalized him. Not that that excuses him in any way.</p>
<p>Watching the news now, it’s crazy. Not sure if they qualify as friends, but have heard two 19 year olds from his high school saying that he was a pleasant and fun to be around guy. He was on the wrestling team. I just can’t imagine what would make someone turn on the people in their own community. I hope they take him alive today, and I hope the country can get some answers as to why and how they did this.</p>
<p>If we dont know the whole story we cant say what a solution would be- from grabbing guns to limiting immigration.</p>
<p>It does seem odd to me that these guys could walk right past people they they knew they were going to blow up minutes later. People laughing, kids, clapping for their spouse to finish. Very strange that wouldnt given them second thoughts- to see their victims to humanized.</p>
<p>Depending on your point of view, these events tend to re-open a slew of other, perhaps interconnected issues which make the entire system appear rather revolting.</p>
<p>If it were possible to “dislike” comments here, this would be the first one in this thread for which I would do that. Do you seriously think “the government” knew that the younger brother was a “terrorist” when he got a small scholarship in high school? Or do you think he was born a terrorist? Or perhaps that all children of Chechnyan refugees who were given asylum here should simply be assumed to be future terrorists, especially if they belong to a particular religion? Is that your point?</p>
<p>DonnaL, I agree that the younger one may have been influenced by the older brother. There are most likely people who regularly came in contact with them and may have noticed their odd behavior. Unfortunately, with the unfolding events, it is probably just now making sense to them.</p>
<p>I think reasonable people can and should discuss immigration and who and where immigrants should and should not come from. Shutting down discussion by casting aspersions on people is not helpful. There should be no topic of civic importance that can’t be discussed.</p>