GUBRATS wrote:
I'm not advocating it , I'm posting it as a question
Given that stopping any larg]e vehicle with a determined driver at the wheel is virtually impossible other than shooting them ( in Nice it was a matter of seconds/a couple of minutes before the police were attempting just that ) it could conceivably be over 30 minutes before an armed response team could be on the scene in the UK
The potential for death and injury is huge
Very scary
You don't live in London, where we have had terrorist attacks more than once over a number of decades and where, it's fair to say, we probably expect that they might happen again – or at least that a tiny minority of loons will be contemplating such attacks even as I post.
Personally, the IRA rattled the windows of my home twice. I heard their bombs more than that.
I work in an area of London just around the corner from two of the 7/7 bombs. I know people who ran out to help. There is an acknowledged (ie obvious) potential target in such an area, and my employer works in conjunction with the unions, the police and other local businesses to maintain and build vigilance.
I'm going to suggest that you don't have a clue what that actually feels like or is about. I doubt you've ever actually heard a bomb explode – let alone several, let alone ones that you can later identify as having killed other human beings.
Can we stop another Nice? Not by policing – simply because no nation on this earth can police each and every street and each and every public gathering at every moment of every day of every month of every years.
Try to use the stuff between your ears.
And will it always be London? No – just as it won't always be Paris. It will be what some tiny group or some lone idiot is near to and thinks possible.
So what are YOU going to do? Run away and hide – thus giving into whatever terrorists happen to be busy at the time? Ask stupid, dumb questions on an internet form – or decide that no group or individual will stop you living your life and thus you'll get on with it?
It's your choice.
PS: I travelled to France for a holiday less than 24 hours after the Nice attack. I travelled through Paris less than 24 hours before the attacks last November. I do not find the nearness comfortable.
