Yes.
No, but there’s other variables at play than just volume of traffic. (Yet again) I can use Northern Ireland, which has the
worst number of road deaths per capita in the UK as an example. That’s down to cars on the road yes, but I would imagine the rural nature of our roads and speed of drivers also contributes.
For example I live in the country and there’ve been two bad accidents in eyeshot of my house in recent years, one where a car slid off the road and another where a lorry understeered and took out a hedgerow on a corner. Someone I personally know also flipped their car on my road last Spring.
That’s a great idea. We could also install more safety cameras. Nonetheless, the most common reasons for road accidents remain not paying full attention, poor positioning on the road, excess speed for the conditions and people driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
Just like in road collisions there are both individual and systemic contributing factors to terrorism, and intercommunal violence.
Of course, I am not excusing the actions of racial supremacist terrorists, any more than I would excuse the actions of
Gusty Spence’s UVF. I’m just trying to provide a cold analytical view of the situation.
The main difference between us and Germany is we never had many lone wolf attacks as opposed to organised groups at all, whereas in Germany that form is the norm. This makes it harder to combat directly, so the solutions in my opinion need to be more... tough on the underlying causes.
In the words of the master.
We should be tough on terrorism and tough on the underlying causes of terrorism.
So let’s absolutely talk about why unhinged xenophobic individuals attack immigrants, and what role mass immigration plays in German terrorism.