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As horrific as truck attacks, mass shootings, and suicide bombings have been, no-one have been on the same order of magnitude as airborne terrorism attacks. Th
by closewith 8mo ago
As horrific as truck attacks, mass shootings, and suicide bombings have been, no-one have been on the same order of magnitude as airborne terrorism attacks.
The Bataclan, Las Vegas, Nice truck attack - all enormous tragedies. But compare to 9/11, Lockerbie, Flight 182, etc.
- Scoundreller 8mo agoBataclan = 132 deaths + ??? injuries Nice Truck = 86 deaths, 458 injured Lockerbie = 270 deaths (presumably 0 injuries) Air India = 329 (also presumably no injuries)
- closewith 8mo agoConveniently leaving out 9/11, was an attack on the scale of Bataclan, but due to the nature of air travel, had a much higher death toll.
- Scoundreller 8mo agoSo like, just one not on the same order of magnitude?
- closewith 8mo agoNo, the vast majority of terrorist truck, car, bombing, shooting, stabbing attacks have single digit casualties due to the security measures in place and the level of difficulty (thankfully) in killing large numbers of people. For a given number of people, money, resources, and risk, an attack against an airliner will have disproportionate casualties and effect. As above, a similar amount of co-ordination was required for Bataclan vs 9/11, with an order of magnitude fewer casualties.
- Scoundreller 8mo agoIunno, did the bataclan attackers learn to play the drums or guitar?