Another Terror Attack

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4569638/Car-ploughs-20-people-London-Bridge.html

[Eleena]

Yes, more sickening news. Those poor people x

[ummmm]

I'm scared.

[Cloverjo]

I think 237sj was making the point that it's extremely unlikely that any one person or family would be affected by a terrorist attack no matter where they are.

My son works in London and I've just sent him an anxious text asking for confirmation that he is ok.

I am going to London later this month. I fully expect to come home.

[mikey4444]

Jo....well said

[ummmm]

But random people are affected.

[naomi24]

Cloverjo, ‘extremely unlikely’ isn’t good enough. Did anyone read and actually understand v_e’s post 00:46 Sun?

[Guilbert53]

People on here are saying they are worried about friends and family who work in London or visit London, but there are around 7 million people in London so statistically the chance of being involved in any problem is low.

Last week a car was driving up the motorway in England with 6 people in it and a lorry ploughed into the back of it killing 5 of them. Does that mean people should stop driving on motorways?

In fact there are about 5 people a DAY killed on Britain's roads so it is far more dangerous to drive than visit London.

And what about all those people who went on a holiday to Thailand about 10 years ago. A huge wave came and killed thousands of them (there and in other places).

You might have thought you were safe on a beach in Thailand but the wave killed around 250,000 people in numerous countries.

If you worried about getting caught up in any sort of disaster you would not go anywhere (and in fact being in your home is very dangerous as thousands of accidents happen in the home).

We all just need to get on with our lives as "normal"

[Prudie]

Those are all accidents though that are part of life. When the odds are increased by people who are deliberately out to attack the innocent it's hard to treat it as 'it will never happen to me'

[Cloverjo]

But it won't (statistically) happen to you, prudie. Guilbert is right. Anything could happen at any time. You could decide to stay at home instead of going to see a show in London, and a plane might fall from the sky onto your house. Who knows what's going to happen?

[naomi24]

Guilbert53, these incidents aren't accidents. It's easy to say 'get on with your life as normal', and of course we must do that, but at the same time you really can't blame people for being concerned. No one knows who that bloke sitting next to them on the train is.

[Cloverjo]

Please can we just get on with our lives and not fret about what some idiots might do.

[naomi24]

Cloverjo, no one is stopping you.

[youngmafbog]

Yes,lets just carry on, light a few candles and leave the perpetrators alone, they are only freedom fighters according to labour activist.

Rot, way past time to get tough.

[mikey4444]

ymb....I would be interested in how you would propose to "get tough"

[naomi24]

10ClarionSt, under current procedures they are doing their best, but it’s time procedures changed.

[youngmafbog]

//ymb....I would be interested in how you would propose to "get tough"//

Proof you never read posts.

[youngmafbog]

It certainly is time procedures were changed.

For one, unfortunately it is also time the Police in cities were routinely armed. Pulling out a baton as some poor but brave copper had to do is not acceptable.

[Old_Geezer]

You can't stab with a baton, but you can break hands, legs, heads.

[agchristie]

Naomi > No one knows who that bloke sitting next to them on the train is.

Yes, a stranger is a stranger.

We all encounter lots of strangers in our everyday lives and could come to grief in various ways from simply looking at someone the wrong way, or just being in the wrong place when a seriously mentally disturbed person picks you out.

What I continue to hear and read though is 'how so you spot a good Muslim from a bad one'?

The answer is you can't, just like any stranger.