Screams, Smoke, Chaos, Pain, Tears and Fatalities - Where are we heading?

I wanted to pen down something else for today, but just could not get a word out of my mind. I woke up to "Boston Marathon Bomb Blast" news early in the morning and the dreadful images that flooded internet. I just could not digest or get the images out of my mind, I'm sure the feeling is mutual. Two bombs, placed in a garbage can(or a mailbox) blasted through the finish line of the Marathon in the heart of the city of Boston.

Mind you! Boston Marathon is the KING OF ALL THE MARATHONS around the world. This is one of the biggest events of its kind, with more than half a million fans watching live or online. You can see umpteen number of flags, belonging to different countries planted nearby the sidewalk of the long stretched road leading to the finish line, representing the participant's country. Taking part in this Marathon is no easy task, but the purists practice for months to get into shape and also to get used to the unforgiving endurance. An "easy to say" but "hard to follow" word is "discipline", which goes into making these Marathoners. Typical Marathoners run for a cause - usually, to fund a rural school or a library, for cancer victims, for research on medical excellence and some, the cardio-addicted junkies for mere fun and also to witness the adrenaline rush.

Three of them, lost their lives and 140 of them, injured. The worst thing is, many people got injured fatally because of the shrapnel used in making the bomb and there are quite a lot, who lost their limbs to this blast. The images of bystanders, with severed limbs would bring even the stone-hearted to tears. You know, during the time of crisis is when, one could see the innate nature of human beings. How true is that! Most of the Boston residents, opened their doors to the injured, survivors and bystanders to take shelter. They helped them with whatever little they can. Kudos to those who helped in such a trying situation. And salutes to those who helped the bystanders and marathoners, get to safety during the blasts.
My heart goes out to those victims, their families and the injured!

The matter-of-fact question, which comes to my mind is - How can somebody, guard garbage cans in the city 24/7 (or) for that matter, any random "Joe" can place a bomb in the mailbox of some other random "Joe's" house? How would one know, there is something fishy in the mid of a thrash can or a mailbox?
Can we say, the cops were lethargic! Nope, we may not - because US has one of the best defense systems in the world. Will any one, look for a small-teeny-tiny-not-so-flattering item in a thrash can, that too - probably, was checked or scrutinized an hour back? No, practically not. Then, how on earth will we curb such violent and disturbing act against civilians?

Only when the wrongdoer realizes his or her act, these blasts would stop. Until that day, we all should stick around like nothing happened at all, and move on, I guess. Basically, we are the easy target for all those crooked minds sitting somewhere and delegating the order to bombard a city with the help of a retarded doer. How would they do this unfathomable act and sleep peacefully at night? No answers, all we have is 'questions and doubts'. Well, tomorrow is a new day - Hope to witness a normal, peaceful and a mundane day! No surprises and shocks, please!

Note: These images from Yahoo, genuinely portrays the agony of the people who were present at that time of the blast - Boston Images.(Warning: There are some disturbing images)

Image Courtesy: Internet