Terror Attack in New York City

Seems the norm, using cars/vans to kill. This is now the ninth incident where terrorists use vehicle
8 people killed, and many more injured.

This could easily happen in Australia.. Scary stuff

NYC terror attack leaves 8 dead, several injured; suspect's notes pledged ISIS loyalty

 

Unfortunately it's bound to happen. Just a matter of time.

 

Thinking exactly the same. Lone wolves

 

It already did in Melbourne. Remember Bourke Street?

Child among four dead after 'evil criminal act' in Melbourne

 

I hope the coward they took into custody gets tortured to the max until he gives up all the other cowards and networks he knows about.

 

Yes, your right.

However, I believe this is ISIS?

 

huh? police killed that coward on the spot.

but whats fox news reporting?

 

Do Americans call this killing of 8 people by a middle-eastern man terrorism, but shooting 58 people dead by a caucasian to be something else?

 

so you did not read my link, its fox

 

That's another thread.
We know US gun laws need to change, but it wont happen in my life time.

Terrorists attacked using vehicle also recently happened in UK, Spain.

 

Not this again. It’s not a racial thing, I wish people would stop implying that. I roll my eyes so hard when I hear people trying to make this about race.

Terrorism is the threat of sustained violence. The fear that another attack with the same underlying motivations could happen again.

Once off attacks where there is no expectation of a directly related follow up is not the same thing.

Vegas was not a terrorist attack. All that IRA stuff (perpetuated buy WHITE people) ARE terrorist attacks. All this ISIS stuff is also terrorism. Likewise, a guy holding up a bank is not terrorism. But a guy holding hostages in a bank in the name of a sky daddy is. This is not just semantics, it’s about the fear of sustained violence even once the act has been completed.

 

Extremely sad. I was just there recently and they had installed huge anti ram raid concrete blocks everywhere across the city. But I guess it’s just not feasible to have 100% coverage.

 

I just got back from NY too

It can happen anywhere, going to be hard to stop this

USA looking at extreme vetting?

This person was not on their radar

 

"The suspected driver, 29-year-old Sayfullo Saipov, had handwritten notes pledging his loyalty to the Islamic State terror network and shouted "Allahu Akbar" after the crash, law enforcement officials told Fox News. Saipov, who was shot by police, was taken into custody and remains hospitalized."

The twisted, f..... up irony is that now the families of the murdered are paying (via taxes) for his medical care.

 

Sick irony

 

Shot him in the leg
I am sure there will be others involved in this attack

 

Hope they can get to all those involved, though I doubt it...

 

Thanks for the education, I honestly didn't know. I thought it was based on numbers. Good to know that we don't have to expect any follow-up shootings anymore.

 

The last sentence sounds like sarcasm. Sorry but my sarcasm detector is broken.

 

Sounds to me like your sarcasm detector is working perfectly fine. Anyway seems like a can of worms that doesn't need to be re-opened. Violence in any form is a bad thing and I intuitively expected the reaction to be proportional to the victim count; I was wrong.