Living in a city, you must be prepared for terror.
This is not how things should be.
Being prepared for these things is not the same as saying these things are unavoidable certainties. There is quite a big distinction, along the lines of having a gun for self defense Vs having a gun to shoot someone.
He is basically saying support the police in their counter terrorism work, and report anything suspicious if you see it. Pretty much what you hear over the airport tannoys every time you fly.
>but it's [terrorist attacks] what decades of incredibly poor middle Eastern foreign policy gets you.
You believe terrorist attacks are deserved as a result of what your government has done in the past?
>I'm quite happy my government takes measures to assure a certain level of personal safety, both physical and psychological.
Which is it? Your government is taking measures to assure your protection, or is actively provoking foreigners to kill you on your own soil?
Nobody deserves to get hit by a car, but if you're running across a highway then what do you expect.
> Which is it? Your government is taking measures to assure your protection, or is actively provoking foreigners to kill you on your own soil?
Why are those mutually exclusive?
I would also tack on that it's mostly the USA's foreign policy that got us here (which our government decided to jump in bed with to be fair, but yours nonetheless). It's just you have a nice Atlantic ocean to buffer you from many of the concequences.
So you support the disarming of all US citizens, because living in fear of crime isn't how things should be?
That's quite the argument!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I03IKr2TWDM
"It's part and parcel of living in a great global city..."
>Seems sensible to me.
You keep using that word...
> Part and parcel of living in a great global city is you’ve got to be prepared for these things, you’ve got to be vigilant, you’ve got to support the police doing an incredibly hard job. We must never accept terrorists being successful, we must never accept that terrorists can destroy our life or destroy the way we lead our lives.
Seems sensible to me.