Prestwich_Blue
Well-Known Member
Excluding the perpetrators, 52 people died in the 2005 7/7 bombings, plus Lee Rigby, Jo Cox (if you class that as terrorism as some do) and the 4 in the latest incident. That's 55 or 56 in 12 years.I was thinking about this yesterday and about how only five people have died (so far, at least).
Now, before anyone jumps on me - yes, five people is still five too many. But in the context of terror attacks that is still a very low number, especially when you also factor in that, Lee Rigby aside (which would've been classed as a one-on-one homicide had the assailant not been a muslim), this is the first attack in nearly 12 years.
Of course that's 56 too many but over the same period over 1,000 women will have been murdered by abusive partners or ex-partners. Over 70,000 people will have killed themselves, many of those having mental health issues. Probably double that number of babies will have died purely as a result of medical negligence before or at the time of delivery. Etc. Yet we don't get days of shock-horror reporting about these along with demands to do something. Why?