Terror Attacks

After every terror attack, there are those that are eager to suggest quick and ill thought out ways of preventing these events from happening again.

This is of course quite normal given that lives may or may not have been lost, property destroyed and disruption to our everyday living has occurred.

Disputes over what should be done get heated, common-sense takes a back seat and then we have those that see fit to thrust their opportunist ideals upon us. Ban semi-automatic weapons (with which I agree) change the names of sporting clubs (it is NOW possibly offensive) and of course change TV programming due to the violence or content that the programmers now see could be seen to be disrespectful.

We are all guilty of jumping to conclusions; it is, however, restraining those urges and taking time to think before we act that will ensure what we decide to do next will hopefully be a good decision.

We live in a world where there are people who are afraid to express their thoughts and people who take advantage of these heartbreaking events.

We now live in a world that will play the blame game to avoid trying to fix the problem, it is easier. The one common denominator in every terror attack is the ideology of the perpetrator, not guns, planes, vehicles or bombs; these are just the tools they use.

No matter what bans we put in place, no matter what laws we change they are only a ban-aid fix. Terrorist, criminals, and fanatics do not concern themselves with bans nor the rule of law their sole purpose is to cause fear, disunity, and disruption to our everyday lives.

We cancel sporting events, concerts, cultural festivals and tell ourselves it is a mark of respect, it is exactly what these fear mongers want. Those that remember 911, the mayor made it his priority to get NY up and running quickly.

New Yorkers rose to that challenge as should we all.

Author Steve Boddey