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Some day I hope to read an article that says "local pub patrons headbutt and pool-cue terrorists into submission, ending rampage at minute one."Others, according to reports, instead took on the attackers head-on in an attempt to rescue victims, fighting back with chairs and pint glasses.
Its coming down to putting snipers at strategic places in some cities
Also a cabbie kept a few of the murderous maniacs dancing with his car for a while, surely sparing someone a stab wound or ten.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3718986/hero-taxi-driver-london-bridge-attack/
Looks to me like society is on the verge of adapting. Maybe in the near future the moment terrorists try to start something passerby will quickly finish it for them.
Headline From the Future: "Terrorists drive into pedestrians, instantly mowed down by every other driver when they jump out."
It happened, and I can't do anything about that. But what I can do is go into work on Monday as usual. And on Thursday I can go out and vote. And if you're reading this and you're British, please, please, use your vote. These attacks try to make us afraid, so afraid we'll make little cages for ourselves in our own minds. Don't let that happen. Whatever your view on how we should run the country, make sure that those in power can see that people care about what happens next. Because I think that give us our best shot of making a future that is a bit better and a bit fairer for everyone.
You know, the Brits have been handling this shit with aplomb for decades. And more recently, remember what happened to that bloke at Glasgow Airport?
I feel like the UK is dealing well with terrorism as a nation. I think this might be because of the history with the IRA though British subjects are more than welcome to correct me on this.
I feel like the UK is dealing well with terrorism as a nation. I think this might be because of the history with the IRA though British subjects are more than welcome to correct me on this.
I feel like the UK is dealing well with terrorism as a nation.
There is tons of ongoing research into this, yes. Who it is, what provokes it, what generations, why familial ones, what areas people are from, demographics, contributory factors, types of incidences, planning, etc. etc., etc.
There are people all over the world looking at these attacks and the people committing them, all over the world. Hostage-taking and terrorist activity has undergone a sea change in the past few decades -- the populations committing the acts has changed, the things that seem to provoke acts has changed, etc. It's all new research, but there's piles of it and experts working on it.
Those FBI reports -- the school shooter one is useful for school administrators, but it's not aimed at stopping people from wanting to shoot up their schools, just a basic primer for trying to recognize kids on the verge of doing it. The other is simply a statistical breakdown of incidences.
The eight minutes is astounding. It wasn't the response time, it's the time from when an incident involving three actors, two different types of attack and several scenes, including moving ones, all in public, once the three actors split, began, to when it was shut down. That's crazily impressive and coordinated work among a slew of agencies who had no known specific warning. Eight minutes to alert, locate, dispatch, deploy, assess, control, contain...
I believe you. I'd be shocked it there weren't. Are there any links to cohesive reports yet? Criteria singling out the 'will act' or 'are about to act' from the thousands of 'possibly could act' is desperately needed.
By the way, the School Shooter report has proved very accurate. What is missing still, however, is getting schools to set up mechanisms to implement the plan. Some schools have acted and school shooter incidents averted.
One of Martin Luther kings speeches run very close to what is being brought up here though probably all of them did heres the link for those interested.https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/beyond-vietnam
A brief extract for those short of time. ( For townsfolk have no time to grow, they have no time to waste. clancy of the overflow Banjo patterson, unfortunately this is me.)
My third reason moves to an even deeper level of awareness, for it grows out of my experience in the ghettos of the North over the last three years, especially the last three summers. As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action.
His speech focuses on how Americas "Misunderstanding" of situations in foreign cultures has raised a generation of dissaffected and perhaps how to deal with them was my take. There are certain correlations with the middle east , or not you decide.
We have destroyed their two most cherished institutions: the family and the village. We have destroyed their land and their crops. We have cooperated in the crushing of the nation’s only noncommunist revolutionary political force, the unified Buddhist Church. We have supported the enemies of the peasants of Saigon. We have corrupted their women and children and killed their men.
Now there is little left to build on, save bitterness. Soon the only solid physical foundations remaining will be found at our military bases and in the concrete of the concentration camps we call “fortified hamlets.” The peasants may well wonder if we plan to build our new Vietnam on such grounds as these. Could we blame them for such thoughts? We must speak for them and raise the questions they cannot raise. These, too, are our brothers.