Hedra42 said:
I should say that London is still much luckier and safer than some US cities where gun crime is a part of daily life. My point is that everyone who has commented in this thread along the lines of 'shit, London's a dangerous place to be' has done so without putting it into context and looking at the bigger picture. There have been some terrible atrocities over the years, all over the world, that will take time to come to terms with. Some will never be able to come to terms with them. And believe me, there's a whole spectrum of emotion going on here right now. What happens in the future, who can say. But people still live and work in London, all 8.6 million of them. They're not going to go running off because 'it's dangerous', which makes some of the comments in this thread look even more pathetic. |
We don't always make the smartest comments when we feel dumbfounded. My bland counterstrike joke wasn't exactly gut-busting comedy either.
At the end of the day, these sort of events are bad, but it's bound to happen in such a large city. Avoiding terrorism/violence altogether is impossible. As you said, London is still rather safe in terms of homicide (especially compared to places such as Chicago)