Most of counter-terrorism is stuff we'll never see, it's the intelligence that prevents it from happening rather than dealing with it when it does.
How do you stop someone for taking hi car and running over people ?
You might stop complicated plots, but not those like in Nice...
As has been said, any individual or duo armed with machine guns or a vehicle loaded with explosives can do a tremendous amount of damage.When you think that in 2011 the police struggled to contain a bunch of thugs rioting
And I am in no way making light of the situation it's an honest and serious question
The latest they're saying is that he was known to police, but only for petty crimes at most.
We are safer than the rest of Europe. Look how many countries you can drive through without stopping. Whatever is used in the UK must be brought into the UK through border control or made here.As has been said, any individual or duo armed with machine guns or a vehicle loaded with explosives can do a tremendous amount of damage.
Yep - we have never had open bordersWe are safer than the rest of Europe. Look how many countries you can drive through without stopping. Whatever is used in the UK must be brought into the UK through border control or made here.
How many countries can things come from on mainland Europe?
Don't want to be a scaremonger, but you can now make guns with a 3D printer.We are safer than the rest of Europe. Look how many countries you can drive through without stopping. Whatever is used in the UK must be brought into the UK through border control or made here.
How many countries can things come from on mainland Europe?
The difference is the materials they would use. Unless like Otis says they are busy making plastic bullets for their plastic gunsBorder controls have generally been irrelevant when it comes to threats against the UK. 7/7 was people who lived here already. Previous to the it was the IRA who had freedom of movement anyway.
We have a couple of decades experience on most European countries when it comes to fighting terrorism and because we're an island nation we don't have borders that you can just walk across so we're always going to be safer for the main part. However this latest attack could be an indication that ISIS and other extremists have lost the ability to arrange something large scale as this seems to be a lone wolf attack inspired by the likes of ISIS etc. rather than an organised from the top attack. This type of attack is always going to be more difficult to track with intelligence. So in some ways we're more vulnerable.
I concur - however the 7/7 bombers were British.Border controls have generally been irrelevant when it comes to threats against the UK. 7/7 was people who lived here already. Previous to the it was the IRA who had freedom of movement anyway.
An interesting point, but the West has to stop serving it's self interest and as a result creating power vacuums, thus allowing extremists to fill the the voidThis outlaw proto-caliphate needs to be crushed to extinguish hope of these terrorists. Though I believe the new policy of letting regional troops grind them down is the right one, a life gets tougher inside IS controlled territory, they stop paying soldiers and bureaucrats, they run out of food, then there will be mass defections as the established regimes take control. So maybe in a few years the region will be a great deal more stable (still crazy but not nearly so bad as today).
They won't necessarily do the same thing again. That's why you have to keep one step ahead of them.How do you stop someone for taking hi car and running over people ?
You might stop complicated plots, but not those like in Nice...
Just a matter of time, Macca.Safer by accident than design here I think. We have a better physical border, better integration than other countries like Belgium and France and less of a North African problem.
In the event of it happening I shudder to think. Unarmed police , waiting however long for a proper armed response. Under resourced hospitals.
God knows how they feel in France, with a Government unable to protect them and whose policies on meddling abroad and immigration only increase the problem. You wonder how bad it gets before the people demand the right to defend themselves
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