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<ul><li>It’s Mother’s Day this weekend, but most of us are confined to our homes, practising social distancing to battle the Coronavirus pandemic. </li><li>But, small things — like watching her favourite movie together can help. </li><li>This week, Business Insider brings you the stories that celebrate moms. </li></ul>It’s Mother’s Day this weekend, but most of us are confined to our homes, practising social distancing to battle the Coronavirus pandemic. That means no movie date with moms, no parties and fancy dinner. But, small things can help — like watching her favourite movie together. This week, Business Insider brings you the stories that celebrate moms. Here are a few movies and series on Netflix, ZEE5 and Disney+ Hotstar. English Vinglish <div type="Youtube" id="wmGVY4T88dc" title="English Vinglish | Official Trailer" thumbUrl="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wmGVY4T88dc/mqdefault.jpg"></div> IMDb rating: 7.8/10 Director: Gauri Shinde Cast: Sridevi, Mehdi Nebbou, Priya Anand, Adil Hussain English Vinglish is an Indian comedy-drama film released in 2012 and is now available on Netflix. The story revolves around a small entrepreneur and mother named Shashi. She makes snacks. And then one fine day, Shashi decides to learn English and joins a course to refrain her husband and daughter from mocking her lack of English skills. And in the process, she ends up gaining self-respect. Workin’ Moms <div type="Youtube" id="gk1vKFcUxyU" title="Workin' Moms Season 1 Netflix Trailer" thumbUrl="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gk1vKFcUxyU/mqdefault.jpg"></div> IMDb rating: 7.4/10 Director: Catherine Reitman Cast: Catherine Reitman,Dani Kind,Juno Rinaldi Workin' Moms is a Canadian show available on Netflix. The show narrates the story of four friends and working mothers who are to return to work in Toronto while managing their kids, bosses, love and everyday life. The story goes around how they deal with the challenges of being working mothers Nil Battey Sannata <div type="Youtube" id="rGrhXaVyltc" title="Nil Battey Sannata Official Trailer with Subtitle | Swara Bhaskar, Ratna Pathak" thumbUrl="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rGrhXaVyltc/mqdefault.jpg"></div> IMDb rating: 8.4/10 Director: Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari Cast: Swara Bhaskar, Sanjay Suri, Pankaj Tripathi, Ratna Pathak Nil Battey Sannata, which is a slang for ‘Good For Nothing’, was a movie released in 2015. Apeksha is a class 10 student who hates studying. More because of her family’s financial status as she understands that she won’t be able to gp for higher studies. Her mother pushes her to study maths but Apeksha believes that she will end up being a maid like her mother. And then, her mother decides to study in her class. The movie was also released internationally as The New Classmate and i now available on ZEE5. Otherhood <div type="Youtube" id="q2b8MKsUloc" title="Otherhood | Official Trailer | Netflix" thumbUrl="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/q2b8MKsUloc/mqdefault.jpg"></div> IMDb rating: 6/10 Director: Cindy Chupack Cast: Patricia Arquette,Angela Bassett,Felicity Huffman Otherhood is an American comedy film available on Netflix. The film, based on the novel ‘Whatever Makes You Happy’ is a story of three best friends who drive to New York city to surprise their adult sons when they forget Mother’s Day. Mom <div type="Youtube" id="hctApy_i-qg" title="MOM - Official Trailer | Sridevi | Nawazuddin Siddiqui | Akshaye Khanna | Hindi Thriller Movie" thumbUrl="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hctApy_i-qg/mqdefault.jpg"></div> IMDb rating: 7.3/10 Director: Ravi Udyawar Cast: Sridevi,Akshaye Khanna,Sajal Ali Available on Netflix and ZEE5, Mom narrates the story of a biology teacher Devki, who hires a private detective to take revenge for her stepdaughter’s sexual assault. She pledges to destroy the four rapists who were acquitted by the court. See also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/heres-why-mothers-day-is-celebrated-on-the-second-sunday-of-may-every-year/articleshow/75617023.cms">Here’s why Mother’s Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of May every year</a>

Mother’s Day Watchlist⁠— English Vinglish, Workin’ Moms, Otherhood and other movies that celebrate mothers

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The US Capitol attack that occurred on January 6, resulted in calls for rioters to be placed on the federal no-fly list. </li><li>Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer <a href="https://www.insider.com/no-fly-list-how-it-works-2021-1">called for the rioters to be placed on the list and the FBI said they were "actively looking"</a> into doing so prior to President Joe Biden's inauguration. </li><li>An aviation expert told Insider that if the rioters are considered a national threat, it shouldn't be "controversial" to say they deserved a place on the confidential federal no-fly list. </li></ul>After <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-biden-electoral-college-loss-violence-presidential-election-extremism-2021-1">violence and chaos</a> ensued at the US <keyword id="1358071" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Capitol-building">Capitol building</keyword> in Washington DC earlier this month lawmakers have called for those involved to be added to the <a href="https://www.tsa.gov/travel/passenger-support/travel-redress-program#:~:text=No%20Fly%20List,the%20FBI's%20Terrorist%20Screening%20Center.">federal no-fly list</a>. On January 6, rioters barged into the US Capitol building <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/hate-symbols-and-extremist-groups-at-the-us-capitol-siege-2021-1">wearing clothing associated with white supremacy and waving confederate flags</a> as lawmakers were in the midst of certifying election results for President Joe Biden. Lawmakers were forced to evacuate as rioters ransacked their offices and the Senate Chamber. A Reuters photographer who was on the scene even heard some of the mob members <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/reuters-photographer-says-pro-trump-rioters-wanted-to-hang-pence-2021-1">discussing hanging former Vice President Mike Pence</a>.<div type="image" title="Capitol riot protestors" height="3312" width="4968" msid="80440459" hostid="261"></div>Many of the insurrectionists were not from the nation's capital but from <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-airlines-are-responding-to-the-us-capitol-building-riots-2021-1">other parts of the country</a>. As they traveled back home to their respective states, some by plane, rioters were caught on camera <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/capitol-riots-caused-chaos-on-airlines-2021-1">pestering lawmakers like Sen. Lindsey Graham</a> at an airport. The riot, which resulted in five deaths, including a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/brian-did-his-job-family-remembers-fallen-capitol-officer-2021-1">Capitol police officer</a>, set off a wave of urgency to boost security efforts in <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/security-biden-inauguration-unprecedented-photos-2021-1">Washington, DC</a>, and <a href="https://www.insider.com/photos-states-beef-up-security-at-capitol-buildings-2021-1">across the US</a> ahead of President Joe Biden's inauguration last week -- including <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/more-us-troops-be-in-dc-biden-inauguration-iraq-afghanistan-2021-1">20,000 National Guard members.</a> Additionally, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/airlines-enacting-911-style-security-on-dc-flights-for-inauguration-2021-1">airlines</a> ramped up security at airports before the inauguration and the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tsa-looking-into-adding-capitol-rioters-to-us-no-fly-list-2021-1">Transportation Security Administration</a> said they were looking into individuals to potentially add to the federal no-fly list. The <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/supreme-court-muslim-men-sue-fbi-agents-no-fly-list-2020-12">controversial</a> list is described as "a small subset of the US government Terrorist Screening Database (also known as the terrorist watchlist) that contains the identity information of known or suspected terrorists," as <a href="https://www.insider.com/no-fly-list-how-it-works-2021-1">Insider's Sophie-Claire Hoeller</a> previously reported citing <keyword id="62795" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="TSA">TSA</keyword>. "The way you get on the list is not public," due to national security, Bryan Del Monte, <a href="https://theaviationagency.com/about/">founder of Aviation Agency</a> and former appointee to the US Department of Defense, told Insider. "The way most people are going to find out that they're on the watchlist is they're going to buy a ticket and attempt to board an aircraft, and they're going to get stopped at screening at a checkpoint. And that may the first time they find out they are not allowed to fly," Del Monte said. According to Del Monte, the federal no-fly list is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/major-us-airlines-no-mask-no-fly-2020-8">different from the airline's own list for passengers who don't follow the rules like not wearing a face mask,</a> a requirement to help curb the spread of COVID-19. According to Insider's report, now Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called for the rioters to be placed on the no-fly list earlier this month."We are here today because the folks, the people, the insurrectionists who breached the US Capitol, fall under the definition of threats to the homeland and should be immediately added to the TSA no-fly list," Schumer said during a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000007547646/schumer-no-fly-list-capitol-riot-insurrection.html">press conference</a> on Jan. 12.<keyword id="6355946" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="fbi">FBI</keyword> Washington Field Office Assistant Director In Charge Steven D'Antuono told reporters that adding rioters to the federal no-fly list was a possibility less than a week after the Capitol breach. "As for the no-fly list, we look at all tools and techniques that we possibly can use within the FBI, and that is something that we are actively looking at," D'Antuono said during a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzTOdORVEnw&amp;feature=emb_titleitle">press conference</a>.Capitol rioters "that represent a threat to law and order and the government, the FBI and others are considering placing them from the list in order to preclude them from using the national infrastructure," Del Monte told Insider also stating that because of the "unique nature of their criminal acts in representing a domestic threat to national security, they are good candidates to be placed on the list."The FBI has called on the <a href="https://www.insider.com/internet-slams-fbi-ask-for-help-identifying-mob-2021-1">public for assistance</a> to find the suspects involved in the riot. Images and videos of the insurrection flooded social media, leaving a digital paper trail that has helped authorities identify the suspects.Since then, <a href="https://www.insider.com/all-the-us-capitol-pro-trump-riot-arrests-charges-names-2021-1">more than 170 arrests</a> have been made, including Riley June Williams, who is accused of stealing <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/capitol-rioter-riley-june-williams-accused-stealing-pelosi-laptop-arrested-2021-1">House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's laptop</a>, and the <a href="https://www.insider.com/lisa-eisenhart-charged-for-us-capitol-riot-participation-2021-1">"Zip tie Guy" and his mother</a>, and Guy Reffitt, who is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/accused-capitol-rioter-threatened-children-fbi-says-2021-1">accused of threatening his kids</a> if they told authorities about his involvement. But <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/capitol-siege-doj-and-fbi-considering-not-charging-all-rioters-2021-1">some rioters could go free</a> as officials are deliberating whether or not to charge those who were not involved in violent activity amid concerns of swamping local courthouses, the Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/doj-capitol-rioters-charges-debate/2021/01/23/3b0cf112-5d97-11eb-8bcf-3877871c819d_story.html">reported</a>. Del Monte told Insider the purpose of the no-fly list is more of a preventative measure, rather than hold individuals criminally liable for their acts. "Whether or not anybody winds up on the list," he said, "should be driven by what the intelligence and what the facts tell us about whether or not they represent an enduring threat to the national security of the United States," Del Monte said. Del Monte continued: "Now I happen to think those people that were willing to go as far as rifling through the Capitol and stealing Capitol property and waving neo-Nazi and white supremacists materials and who were armed and had handcuffs and clearly had designs to kidnap or kill the vice president, the speaker ... those people represent a unique threat to national security and I don't think it should be particularly controversial to say that those people should not be allowed to fly ever again."Read more: <a href="https://www.insider.com/no-fly-list-how-it-works-2021-1">While it sounds easy enough to add identified individuals who participated in a domestic terrorist attack on the federal no-fly list, it actually isn't</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/capitol-riots-caused-chaos-on-airlines-2021-1">The Capitol riots caused chaos in the skies as airlines flew protesters home from a violent day in Washington, DC</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/all-the-us-capitol-pro-trump-riot-arrests-charges-names-2021-1">179 pro-Trump rioters have been charged in the Capitol insurrection so far. This searchable table shows them all.</a>

Violent rioters of the US Capitol attack would be 'good candidates' for the federal no-fly list, expert says

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">Warner Bros.All seven seasons of the popular series "Gilmore Girls" will be available for binge-watching from July 1.</div></div></div>Each month, Netflix welcomes a long list of films and TV shows to its library.This July, users of the streaming service can look forward to binge-watching all seven seasons of the popular TV series, "Gilmore Girls," in the lead-up to <a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/stayingin/tvfilm/gilmore-girls-is-coming-to-netflix-uk-in-full-this-july-a3282631.html" target="_blank">the launch of Netflix's four-part follow-up series, "Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life," on November 22</a>.Other acclaimed TV releases include the second season of "Fargo" - a dark drama adapted from the Coen brothers' film of the same name - with an excellent cast including Kirsten Dunst, Colin Hanks, Patrick Wilson, and Ted Danson.Netflix originals like "Tallulah" - a film about two women who unite over a kidnapped baby, with Ellen Page and Allison Janney - and "Stranger Things," a drama series set in 1980s Midwestern America starring Winona Ryder, are also worth adding to your watchlist.Here's the full list of July's releases:Available 1/7/16"A Decent Arrangement" (2011)"Akeelah and the Bee" (2006)"Amok" (2014)"The Arrival" (1996)"Baba" (2002)"Between," Season 2, Netflix original"Bill Hicks: Revelations" (1993)"Brannigan" (1975)"Bright Night" (2015)"Brotherly Love" (2015)<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Freestyle Releasing"Brotherly Love" is about an American high-school basketball player's rise to fame</div></div></div>"Buddies" (1983)"Can't Run From Love," Season 1"Chauranga" (2014)"Chelsea," Season 1, Netflix original"Cowboy Bebop," Season 1"Daft Punk Unchained" (2015)"Daughters of Mother India" (2015)"Dwayne Perkins: Take Note" (2016)"Eastsiders," Seasons 1 &amp; 2"The End," Season 1"Exit Afghanistan" (2013)"Ezel," Season 1"Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask" (1972)"Family Fever" (2014)"Fittest on Earth" (2015)"Floating!" (2015)"Forks Over Knives" (2001)"Forks Over Knives Presents: The Engine 2 Kitchen Rescue" (2011)"The Future of Water," Season 1"Gilmore Girls," Seasons 1 - 7<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Warner Bros.Stars Hollow's favourite mother-daughter duo Lorelai and Rory Gilmore returns to Netflix.</div></div></div>"Haraamkhor" (2015)"Hirschen" (2014)"Horrid Henry," Season 4"I.D." (1995)"III - The Ritual" (2015)"Indie Game: Life After" (2014)"Jem and the Holograms," Seasons 1 - 3"Jim Jefferies: Freedumb," Netflix original"Kacak," Season 1"Kaptn Oskar"(2013)"Karadayi," Season 1"Kate and Mim-Mim," Season 1"The Killer Elite" (1975)"Klappe Cowboy!" (2012)"Kumu Hina" (2014)"Kurt Seyit &amp; Sura," Season 1"Kya Kool Hain Hum 3" (2016)"The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane" (1976)"Love and Marriage," Season 1"Love Steaks" (2013)"Marco Polo," Season 2, Netflix original"Mossad 101," Season 1"Mount Joy" (2014)"My Friend Rockefeller" (2015)"NatureVision TV," Collection 1"Offspring," Seasons 1 - 5"Operation Proposal," Season 1"The Pink Mirror" (2003)"The Presence" (2010)"Road to Yesterday" (2015)"Running Scared" (2006)"Sam Kinison: Family Entertainment Hour" (1991)"Spotless," Season 1, Netflix original"Stealing History" (2005)"Suicide (Hitabdut)" (2014)"Terminus" (2015)"The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3" (1998)"The Wicker Man" (2006)"The Wiggles: Ready, Steady, Wiggle!" Season 2"Thief" (1981)"Welcome to the Punch" (2013)"Well Wishes" (2015)"White Collar," Season 6"Willie Barcena: The Truth Hurts" (2016)"X: Past Is Present" (2015)"You Carry Me" (2015)Available 4/7/16"Kuromukoro," Season 1, Netflix originalAvailable 5/7/16"Thithi" (2015)Available 6/7/16"Belle" (2013)"Brahman Naman," Netflix original"Pretty Little Liars," Season 7Available 7/7/16"The Armor of Light" (2015)Available 8/7/16"The Invitation" (2015)"Mono" (2016)"Word Party," Season 1Available 11/7/16"The Returned," Season 2Available 12/7/16"PAW Patrol," Season 2"Scream," Season 2<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">FXKirsten Dunst stars in the second season of the acclaimed series "Fargo," set in the 1970s.</div></div></div>Available 13/7/16"Fargo," Season 2"The Fault in Our Stars" (2014)Avaible 14/7/16"Dragon Blade" (2015)"Magi: Adventure of Sinbad," Season 1"Six Degrees of Separation" (1993)Available 15/7/16"A Good Rain Knows" (2009)"The Adventures of Puss in Boots," Season 3, Netflix original"Gavin &amp; Stacey," Season 3"Ghostheads" (2016)"Holidays" (2016)"International Street Art" (2014)"Jellies" (2015)"The Lava Field," Season 1"Lusers" (2015)"Ocean Wonders" (2015)"Puss in Boots" (2011)"Rudhramadevi" (2015)"Shrek 2" (2004)"Shrek Forever After" (2010)"Shrek the Third" (2007)"Small is Beautiful" (2015)"Soul Plane" (2004)"Stranger Things," Season 1, Netflix original<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Paramount PicturesKids and grown-ups alike can watch the family-friendly addition, "Shrek Forever After."</div></div></div>Available 17/7/16"The Human Experiment" (2013)"The Purge: Anarchy" (2014) Available 18/7/16"Power," Season 3Available 20/7/16"The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland" (1999)"Genghis Khan" (1965)"Joe Dirt" (2001)"Labyrinth" (1986)"The Mirror Has Two Faces" (1996)"Resident Evil: Retribution" (2012)"X-Men: Days of Future Past" (2014)Available 21/7/16"Before We Go" (2014)"Internet Famous" (2016)Available 22/7/16"Bojack Horseman," Season 3, Netflix original"Degrassi: Next Class," Season 2, Netflix original"Million Dollar Arm" (2014)Available 23/7/16"QI," Season 12Available 24/7/16"Popples," Season 3, Netflix originalAvailable 25/7/16"The Concubine" (2012)"Enemies In-Law" (2015)"Eungyo" (2012)"The Exclusive: Beat the Devil's Tattoo" (2015)"Hope" (2013)"Manhole" (2014)"Man on High Heels" (2014)"Power," Season 3"The Silenced" (2015)"Tazza: The Hidden Card" (2014)"Queen of the Night" (2013)<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">NetflixEllen Page gives an impressive performance in the Netflix original "Tallulah."</div></div></div>Available 27/7/16"April Fool's Day" (1986)"Hard Eight" (1996)"It Started in Naples" (1960)"Pretty Baby" (1978)"The Tenant" (1976)Available 29/7/16"Home," Season 1, Netflix original"LEGO Bionicle: The Journey to One," Season 1, Netflix original"Tallulah," Netflix original <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-hidden-categories-2016-6">How to find Netflix's secret categories</a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="VlZjM2MDE6YhzeEmGWLIfJXnPkAikBM-" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

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<div class="image-container float_right" style="width:400px"><div class="image"></div>AP</div>Nobody knows why he did it. But that hasn't stopped them speculating. In retrospect, from the testimony of those who knew him, there were signs.
But nobody could have predicted anything on this scale. What influences came to bear? What motives could there be? What would drive a young man to wilfully murder as many innocents as possible, leaving the country both vulnerable and mournful?
I pose these questions not of <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/dzhokhar-tsarnaev" title="">Dzhokhar Tsarnaev</a>, the 19-year-old chief surviving suspect in the Boston bombing saga that left three dead and injured more than 170 last week, but of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/nyregion/adam-lanza-an-enigma-who-is-now-identified-as-a-mass-killer.html" title="">Adam Lanza</a>, who shot 20 children and six teachers in Newtown, Connecticut in December. The contradictions in the political responses to the two tragedies and the issues they raise could not be more glaring or obscene.
On Monday the Boston Marathon was bombed. Within a day of suspects being identified, politicians who defended the status quo on <keyword id="6371465" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="guns">guns</keyword> were calling for <a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/04/20/peter_king_calls_for_increased_surveillance_of_muslims_after_boston/" title="">"increased surveillance of Muslims"</a> and addressing <a href="http://colorlines.com/archives/2013/04/sen_grassley_in_judiciary_committee_conflates_immigration_regulation_with_boston_violence.html" title="">"loopholes in the immigration system"</a> (Tsarnaev and his brother, Tamerlan, who was killed in a firefight, grew up in Kyrgyzstan).
On Wednesday the Senate declined to pass even the most anaemic <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/17/senate-debates-gun-control-package-live" title="">gun control measures</a> in response to the Newtown shootings. Twenty children, aged between six and seven, are slaughtered in school and the American polity takes five months to decide do nothing. Unable to break the filibuster limit, it didn't even come to a vote. Hiding behind the National Rifle Association's (NRA) talking points, gun rights senators cloaked themselves in the constitution, insisting support for <keyword id="1127786" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="gun-control">gun control</keyword> would violate the second amendment "right to bear arms".
While the authorities <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/20/boston-marathon-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-mirnada-rights" title="">denied the still unconscious Dzhokhar his Miranda rights</a> (informing him that he has the right to remain silent), some Republicans insisted he be tried as "an enemy combatant" – the legal aberration and moral abomination that paved the way to Guantánamo Bay. Their devotion to constitutional rights, it turns out, is partial; their <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/16/americas-deadly-devotion-guns" title="">embrace of guns</a> is complete. <a href="http://www.nraila.org/news-issues/fact-sheets/2011/why-nra-opposes-gun-control-supporters%60.aspx?s=&amp;st=&amp;ps" title="">The NRA even opposes legislation banning gun sales to people on the terrorist watchlist</a>, meaning those who can't board a flight can still lock and load.
As John Oliver, a UK comedian on the Daily Show, noted: "One failed attempt at a shoe bomb and we all have to take off our shoes at the airport. Thirty one school shootings since Columbine and no change in the regulation of guns."
The ramifications of this neglect cannot be overstated. More than 85 people – <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/jun/09/usa.usgunviolence" title="">including eight children</a> – are killed with guns on an average day in America and more than twice that number are injured. Even taking into account the fact that most gun deaths are suicides, that's still several times the death toll of 9/11 every year.
Numbers alone, however, don't quite do the cognitive dissonance justice. The effect of a terrorist attack such as Boston cannot be measured in the number of slain alone. Terrorism creates a culture of fear and suspicion that spreads beyond those immediately affected and impacts upon our understanding of risk. It means no one feels safe, anyone is a potential suspect and danger could be anywhere. "Terror is first of all the terror of the next attack," writes <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arjun_Appadurai" title="">Arjun Appadurai</a> in Fear of Small Numbers. "Terror … opens the possibility that anyone may be a soldier in disguise, a sleeper among us, waiting to strike at the heart of our social slumber."
The trouble is this is precisely the culture that many Americans have lived in for years. It's estimated that in Chicago <a href="http://health.usnews.com/usnews/health/articles/060612/12mavericks.htm" title="">20-30% of the children have witnessed a school shooting</a>. Carolyn Murray, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/12/barack-obama-gun-violence-chicago" title="">whose son was shot dead on his grandmother's lawn in a Chicago suburb</a>, does not enjoy much in the way of "social slumber". She has become so accustomed to gunfire at the weekends she could call the police and tell them what calibre was used and the direction of the shooting, just by listening in bed. Put bluntly, a significant section of America lives in constant terror and Congress just decided they should continue to do so.
In the <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/169083/aurora-another-mass-killing-shocks-america-why#" title="">hierarchy of suffering and security in America</a> there are, in short, places where you are supposed to be safe – marathons, suburban schools, cinemas – and places where you are apparently entitled to no such expectation: particularly poor black and Latino neighbourhoods. Only in a handful of exceptions – when the killers are white, American-born Christians (the media has developed no default anxiety about them), the dead mostly white and the murders in large numbers – do shootings stand a chance of attracting mainstream political attention. Even then, only rarely, and even then, as last week proved, to little tangible effect.
The uncomfortable reality is that there is <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/boston-bombings-expose-limits-of-post-911-security/2013/04/20/c9bbeda6-a921-11e2-a8e2-5b98cb59187f_story.html" title="">precious little that can be done to prevent an atrocity such as that in Boston</a>. "We've had a lot of successes in degrading the ability of al-Qaida to launch massive attacks," Democratic congressman Adam Schiff, a former federal prosecutor and member of the house intelligence committee, told the Washington Post. "But we've had a proliferation of one-off, foreign-born plots and self-radicalised individuals … We're going to have to recognise a certain vulnerability, and adopt a determined view that we will go on as we have, taking prudent precautions, but not changing the way we live."
Conversely there is a great deal that can be done to change the way Americans die daily. Gun rights advocates insist the gun-control measure that had the best chance last week, which demanded background checks for guns sold online and at gun shows, would not have prevented Lanza's crime. He used his mother's gun, which had been purchased legally. That's true, although since <a href="http://www.bradycampaign.org/studies/view/240/" title="">90% of Americans and even 74% of gun-owning members of the NRA</a> agreed with it, they should have passed it anyway. But the reason the compromise proposal was so tepid is because they scuppered efforts to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, which enabled Lanza to kill far more children far more quickly.
Expressing frustration at the failure to pass anything, Andrew Goddard, whose son Colin was injured during the 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/18/us/politics/despite-tearful-pleas-no-real-chance.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0" title="">told the New York Times</a>: "It's almost like you can see the finish line, but you just can't get there. It's more annoying to be able to see it and not get to it."
There's many a Boston marathon runner who knows exactly how that feels.
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This article originally appeared on <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/21/atrocities-boston-marathon-hard-tackle">guardian.co.uk</a>

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