Terror Attack in Nice, France leaves over 80 dead

[Quickstatus]

Very sad... I am hating the way is changing and our kids aren't going to be able to go and be free spirits out and about...

Kids haven't been able to be free spirits for many years now. The age of kids roaming the streets and then coming home at sundown is long gone.

But I agree .

 

[Quickstatus]

That report also outlines that 53% of all terrorist deaths in 2014 occurred in Iraq and Nigeria, and that "thirteen times as many people are killed globally by homicides than die in terrorists attacks".

We have to keep these statistics in mind when assessing our risk when travelling anywhere. I recall being in London last year with my sister who was very anxious about a terrorist attack there, yet having to physically pull her back when she was starting to cross a street when she hadn't seen a car coming towards her.

And half a million people die from malaria every year...
But terrorism is a direct attack on our way of life and is directed at entire populations. They kill a "few" but change the lives of everyone.

 

[OATEK]

I was in Paris about two weeks ago, during the Euro 2016 finals. It was a bit disconcerting to come out of a church and find half a dozen soldiers in full gear doing a search of the perimeter. Two poking their guns into dark corners, two looking more widely around the area, and the other 2 covering the first 4. I neither felt safer nor more under threat - it just felt a little surreal to have an army squad doing their maneuvers outside St Sulpice. At the Eiffel Tower there were barricades, security gates, metal detectors, soldiers, police - the whole nine yards (as we hurried past to reach the bistrot we had booked).

But I enjoyed rummaging in the flea market at Port de Vanves where there were hundreds out on a Saturday morning, and not a soldier or policeman in sight. Not all of Paris was in lock down, and I felt no less safe than on any of my other 4 or 5 visits. We have already booked for a week in France next April for ANZAC Day, where we are taking a family group ranging across 3 generations. We still intend to go, believing the odds are in our favour mathematically, and we have a duty to commemorate those who faced such terrible odds 100 years ago.

 

[trooper]

60% of US gun deaths are suicides... so when you say Americans kill Americans... yes.. true... but mainly THEMSELVES.

And keep away from certain cities like Chicago (which curiously has tough gun laws) and your chance of dying from gunfire drops below that likely in may other countries.

Like many things, such as the threat from terrorism to any one individual, the actuality is different to the perception.