BarbiesBoyfriend I wholly agree.
My view is that the sums do not add up, passengers lives are worth less than the cost of implementing countermeasures against the wide range of methods know exist that cause mayhem.
So in some ways it is good that we are NOT spending billions on, say, protecting every airport perimeter from a drive-in truck bomb or equipping every railway station with xray machines.
Looked at from this perspective "they" haven't won at all, although this is a perspective that won't be shared for the victims of the next terrorist incident.
There is a parallel with the current scrambling by government in Victoria Australia, where 172 people were killed by bushfire, on a day that was forewarned as being potentially catastrophic.
A$360M given by public to victims, plus millions more by government, is a figure that is a drop in the ocean compared to the costs of increased fire protection regulations that will befall new home builders.
Is it worth it? The average number of people killed per year in bushfires in the whole of Australia in the last century is.....8. (before feb 7th the average was 6 per year)
Yet last summer 980 people died in Victoria from heat exhaustion, this was in increase of 374 over the previous mean. Half of these were elderly living at home.
With the money available more lives WILL be saved next "fire season" if evaporative air-conditioners are available in homes where the occupants are at risk of heat exhaustion.
Mickjoebill
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