One glaring problem with seeing terror attacks in terms of the weapons used is that eventually you consider the intended victims “lucky” that the terrorists tried to use pipe bombs rather than semi-automatic weapons or machetes instead of pipe bombs.
After a man killed four people by driving a truck into a department store in Stockholm, Sweden, Friday, the Washington Post took notice of several recent truck attacks, including the horrific Bastille Day attack in Nice, France that killed 86 people. However, the paper stopped short of sending a reporter to a dealership to test drive one of these assault trucks and assess society’s need for large delivery vehicles.
What, exactly, are cities doing to prevent radicalized trucks from attacking and killing innocent people?
Analysis | It's nearly impossible to stop terrorists from using trucks as weapons. Here's what cities are trying. https://t.co/xUKo4USVVI
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 8, 2017
https://twitter.com/ParthianArrows/status/850872738604392448
Hmm …
You can stop terrorism by containing them in their home country and then eliminating them.
— ??Keith Stone?? (@willardsanchez_) April 8, 2017
Is this guy talking about some sort of import ban? Some of the hardest working commercial trucks in the United States come here as imports from Europe, Japan, South Korea …
it's easy, stop importing Muslims into Western countries. Let them blow each other up in Middle East
— Chairman Meow (@jj_carnahan) April 8, 2017
#BanTrucksNow #MomsAgsinstTrucks
— Linsey Jones (@notHillary21) April 8, 2017
Clearly if we'd just give up trucks that would make the Islamists happy.
— Judson McCulloch (@JudsonMcCulloch) April 9, 2017
Remarkably, quite a few people seem OK with giving up a little freedom for an unspecified return.
Bollards along sidewalks.
— Paladin (@Paladin1145) April 8, 2017
Bridges, not walls!
I recommend transit and ped/bike only streets with short delivery truck use
— Will in Seattle (@WillSeattle) April 8, 2017
https://twitter.com/intencity77/status/850789192607072257
Hi @mradamtaylor @washingtonpost, you say truck attacks in "Nice, Berlin, London and now Stockholm." But what about in #Israel too?
— Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) April 8, 2017
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Unlike ‘surly misfit’ who terrorized Nice, Munich shooter was ‘quietly troubled young man’ https://t.co/YKYOnuFoSf
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 24, 2016
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