Truck Drives Through Crowd in Nice, France

[Xadufell]

My condolences to the victims. I am sure they were Nice people.

I know I shouldn't be laughing at this, but I can't help myself.

Oh God, I just got the pun... That's horrible, but I can't help myself from laughing either.

[New American Republic of Texas]

Definitely a terror attack, timing pretty much says it.

Now I'm waiting for a Trump tweet doubling down on calling for armed civilians and ejection of all suspected Muslims.

Armed citizens would help. As long as they are law abiding and pass a background test. But all Trump wants to do is temporarily ban immigration from Muslim countries until we fix the system of bringing good people in and keeping bad people out. Nice job getting your information from Msnbc.

[Ifreann]

Why is it always France?

Always?

[Ohioan Territory]

How do we know that this was a terror attack? Simply because of the timing of the incident? (this isn't meant to be a dickish question, I'm seriously asking)

Do we have any information on the driver?

[Geilinor]

Definitely a terror attack, timing pretty much says it.

Now I'm waiting for a Trump tweet doubling down on calling for armed civilians and ejection of all suspected Muslims.

Armed citizens would help. As long as they are law abiding and pass a background test. But all Trump wants to do is temporarily ban immigration from Muslim countries until we fix the system of bringing good people in and keeping bad people out. Nice job getting your information from Msnbc.

How would armed citizens stop a truck?

[Aelex]

Why is it always France?

My bet? Le Penn. Feeds a narrative that Muslims are evil, some people start treating Muslims like shit, some of those Muslims snap under this, join ISIS, and the cycle can be lea to continue.

Yeah. It's fucking OUR FAULT if we're getting terror attack.
For fuck sake, stop freaking infantilizing the assholes who do that. THEY FUCKING DECIDE TO KILL PEOPLE OF THEIR OWN FREE WILL. We aren't holding their fucking hands, it's of their own volition that they act.

[New American Republic of Texas]

I can only assume it's either ISIS or an unfortunate drunk driving incident.

Either way, my hearts out to the victims families.

Drunk drivers dont hold people in cafes hostage and have shootouts with cops.

[Ifreann]

Armed citizens would help. As long as they are law abiding and pass a background test. But all Trump wants to do is temporarily ban immigration from Muslim countries until we fix the system of bringing good people in and keeping bad people out. Nice job getting your information from Msnbc.

How would armed citizens stop a truck?

Take out the engine with an anti-materiel rifle.

[Eol Sha]

Wow. That's...just wow. What a tragedy.

[New American Republic of Texas]

Armed citizens would help. As long as they are law abiding and pass a background test. But all Trump wants to do is temporarily ban immigration from Muslim countries until we fix the system of bringing good people in and keeping bad people out. Nice job getting your information from Msnbc.

How would armed citizens stop a truck?

Not the truck part, the hostage part. An accomplice is holding a bunch of people hostage in a cafe.

[Kelinfort]

Probably a terrorist attack, perhaps though it could've been a drunk driver. It's likely ISIS related.

[Washington Resistance Army]

Damn, yet another terror attack. Daesh strikes again.

Because they ban guns completely

The solution here is to ban high capacity assault trucks as well.

This guy gets it^

[New American Republic of Texas]

How would armed citizens stop a truck?

Take out the engine with an anti-materiel rifle.

And pop the tires

[Luziyca]

Armed citizens would help. As long as they are law abiding and pass a background test. But all Trump wants to do is temporarily ban immigration from Muslim countries until we fix the system of bringing good people in and keeping bad people out. Nice job getting your information from Msnbc.

How would armed citizens stop a truck?

Aim and shoot at the tires until the truck cannot go further.

[Xadufell]

I can only assume it's either ISIS or an unfortunate drunk driving incident.

Either way, my hearts out to the victims families.

Drunk drivers dont hold people in cafes hostage and have shootouts with cops.

Oh, my bad. Didn't read the part about that.


God I must seem like an idiot.

[The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp]

This is horrible, my condolences to the victims.

[Aelex]

Probably a terrorist attack, perhaps though it could've been a drunk driver. It's likely ISIS related.

Unlikely that it is a drunk man. It happened on a promenade aka a pedestrian only zone. Moreover, it seems that he opened fire on the crowd.

[Eol Sha]

Why is it always France?

I wouldn't call three attacks in under two years "always".

[The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp]

How would armed citizens stop a truck?

Aim and shoot at the tires until the truck cannot go further.

And then... it crashes out of control.

That would do nothing.

[Olerand]

The préfecture has already declared this a terrorist attack. I have family in the area who can't be contacted, so I hope they're alright. Anyway, this is tragic, but unavoidable. We really have a major problem in this country, and the longer mainstream politicians hold off on doing anything the higher the FN will rise. I thought Marine had a chance in 2022, but if things keep going like this, she might have a chance as early as 2017.

[Kelinfort]

Probably a terrorist attack, perhaps though it could've been a drunk driver. It's likely ISIS related.

Unlikely that it is a drunk man. It happened on a promenade aka a pedestrian only zone. Moreover, it seems that he opened fire on the crowd.

He did? I just heard reports there was an exchange of gunfire, and the driver was shot dead.

[Eol Sha]

Probably a terrorist attack, perhaps though it could've been a drunk driver. It's likely ISIS related.

Well, Bastille Day would be a day I'd expect a higher number of drunk-driving incidents.

[Xadufell]

Aim and shoot at the tires until the truck cannot go further.

And then... it crashes out of control.

That would do nothing.

Unless it doesn't, way to be a pessimist.

[Washington Resistance Army]

Unlikely that it is a drunk man. It happened on a promenade aka a pedestrian only zone. Moreover, it seems that he opened fire on the crowd.

He did? I just heard reports there was an exchange of gunfire, and the driver was shot dead.

From what I heard the guy held people hostage and had a shootout afterwards.

[The Serbian Empire]

Why is it always France?

My bet? Le Penn. Feeds a narrative that Muslims are evil, some people start treating Muslims like shit, some of those Muslims snap under this, join ISIS, and the cycle can be lea to continue.

Then the cycle repeats.