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		tomjen3 on Sept 8, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our ... That attack was overhyped by the media, which suggest a way to stop them. Personally I am far more concerned by the rent/steal truck and mow down pedestrians mode that we have seen in France and Germany. You might be able to do more about gun safety. You can't really prevent a madman from driving up on the sidewalk deliberately and almost any person can rent a van.

bserge on Sept 8, 2021 [–]

Couple that with a bomb inside the van, ez killscore.

But why kill? Why not attach several 20W lasers to a drone and fire them up on a busy bridge/road? Living in suffering is a worse fate.

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