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Thread #139327 Message #3197085
Posted By: Peter K (Fionn)
28-Jul-11 - 03:05 AM
Thread Name: BS: security concerns about Norway shooting
Subject: RE: BS: security concerns about Norway shooting
We all have to realize those days are over and start predicting stuff
This attitude is exactly the problem. We can 't predict stuff. Norway could spend a fortune guarding against a repeat of last week's episode, but that would merely guarantee that the next nutter who wants to make an impact will do it a different way.
The US may have done enough to ensure that there will never be another 9/11, but in terms of preventing another spectacular outrage, that's just a gesture. The next time will probably not involve aircraft at all. It could be a nuclear device in one of the two-three million containers that arrive, unsearched, on the US western seaboard every day. So spend half an hour searching each container. What next, mg?
Of course, rather than screwing up life for everyone by guarding against what will probably never happen, we could simply take a more realistic attitude to risk. Which is why I was always happy for my daughter to trust strangers, even though one in every few million was probably a paedophile. (She survived.)