Truck driven into German Christmas market in deliberate attack - 12 dead

[Peh]

ArnoldRimmer said:

Peh said:

It's just a witch hunt that's going on. Immigrants are coming into the country for decades. Blaming all bad stuff on one politician or all immigrants/refugees is just as stupid. If you stop refugess coming into the country, then terrorists will still find a way and cause damage. But I guess you can't expect people to see that far ahead. They only see what's right in front of them. Pointing fingers at everyone and not having a single solution at hand to the issue which both parties could need.

As much as the bold part is true, it's even more trivial. If you seriously think that this is some kind of great insight and imagine yourself surrounded by hordes of stupid people failing to see a trivial wisdom like that, chances are you are underestimating the intelligence of your fellow human beings, or overestimating your own.

Everyone knows that even the best security measures can never completely eliminate the danger of something like this happening. But at the same time, most people know that it is still very well possible to increase or decrease the probabality of something like this happening. Seriously pointing out that even the best measures will never completely eliminate the danger is black and white thinking to me, kind of suggesting that there there is no difference between, say, a 1% chance and a 91% chance of something like this happening, because both numbers do not equal 0%.

And when it comes to the probability of such attacks happening in Germany, the mass migration wave that started some 15 months ago clearly did increase that probability. And (not only) in that respect, it was quite different from the "usual" migration to Germany that has been going on for many decades.

Of course the migration is different, because the times are pretty much different than before. Today, it's easier to reach certain groups of people who are open to radicalisation. The internet makes it possible. I am not denying that taking in so many refugees at once comes with a risk. Europe was not prepared for this. But yet, you fail to provide an alternative solution like so many other people screaming at refugees and immigrants. This is the first terrorist attack that hit germany (It's still not confirmed what the motive is or who did this). The recent attacks done in france for example were from people being born there. It doesn't matter where you are from, it matters if you are open to such things or not.

If a country takes refugees in, then it is their responsibility to take care of them and watch them, until the issue in their home country are resolved. Even if the huge amount of refugees didn't exist. Terrorist attacks existed before that. Blame the people who are to be blamed, not the people who run away from death.