Dear America, Get a grip.

Chechnyan separatists are not coming to murder you in your beds. We do not need to tell the entire city of Boston to "shelter in place" because of one suspected armed, deranged teenager. The NRA has made sure that every deranged and violent person in the country can access as much fire-power as they want with an absolute minimum of inconvenience and, as a result, on any given day, our cities are full of armed deranged teenagers. And enough with the Guantanamo/enemy combatant/military tribunal/torture nonsense. Is our legal system really so fragile that it cannot endure the strain of regular old due process on it's ancient creaking cogs of justice? How many bucket loads of money, anxiety and inane babbling stretches of air time are we going to devote to this when the one thing we really could have done to decrease last week's awful death and mayhem was to make sure government regulators were inspecting fertilizer plants.