Van attacks people outside of mosque in London

[Hedra42]

monocle_layton said:

Hedra42 said:

Insensitive, yes, although I was referring to the hypocricy of your statement as it was based on your own premise of London turning into a Counterstrike map, when similar stuff goes on in your own country, and indeed everywhere in the world. The link, which shows a recent attack  in Virginia with similar apparent motives to the one in London last night, I provided merely as an illustration.

It was an exaggeration. Am I however concerned for London? Yes, yes I am.

 

We forget that London is one city; the United States is a massive country. Seeing these sorts of issues occur more often in the past few weeks is concerning to me.

 

Indeed, but it should be kept in context. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/many-people-killed-terrorist-attacks-uk/

Not belittling any of the terrorist incidents, including the one in Manchester, but it should also be kept in mind that many more people were killed in the tragic fire in London last week - the numbers are still rising as they are still trying to account for people.

And I doubt that the story of the forest fire in Portugal has made as big a splash your side of the pond, despite there being just as many people being killed as those in the London tower block. Different circumstances, but equally tragic.

Looking at the bigger picture informs.