Yeah, I have been talking about the very same thing with friends and families for weeks now.
It's all fine saying we are going to 'stay strong' and be holding vigils and turning up at unity rallies etc., but we keep hearing 'they are not going to defeat us, they are not going to win' soundbites, but we are the ones constantly suffering loss.
Terrorists kill 50 people and it is not just 50 people who suffer. With every single incident there are the parents of the victims, the brothers and sisters of the victims, the cousins, aunties, uncles, friends, work colleagues, classmates etc. Thousands of lifes have an impact upon them, many a life changing impact.
I just wonder what the relatives and associates of all these tragic victims are thinking when the day after we get all these 'they will not win' and 'we will stay strong' quips get churned out by leaders.
But then you think, what else can they say?
I really don't know what the answer is.
Surely impossible to stop individuals with knives just walking up to a number of people anywhere and stabbing them. Impossible to stop a van that suddenly deviates from it's normal driving stance, speeds up and then ploughs into any group of people in its path.
You also know that it will only be a matter of time before this terror spreads, which will then make it even more of an impossible task. How long until it is Birmingham, or Liverpool, or Bristol, or Leeds and of course Coventry, or any other major city?
Impossible task. They can hit anywhere, at any time.
I know we all have to try and continue life as normal, but how do we explain these dark days to our children? It's a completely different world to the one we were all brought up in.
Yeah, when I was growing up the was the IRA, but you usually got warnings and the targets were usually political and institutional, not just random stab and kill anything that moves ploys.
A very strange and sad world we now find ourselves in.
