UK police say bridge attacker had been jailed for terror crimes

The only reason this is news is that it happened in the UK.

ANY gunshots in the UK are front page news - because it is so rare.

It's business as usual in Anytown, US.

In the US this would have involved an assault weapon and 20 people would be dead by now.

(Pssst - the UK has sensible gun laws.)

The people who fought this lunatic at heroes!

*are heroes!

Are the hurried deflections back to the USA because liberals know “who” did this? Likely.

this has nothing to do with the USA or guns.

Media at it again. The picture of “a man holding a knife” is not the killer but the bystander who took it away. That’s a kind of important detail to not emphasize.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7740295/Knife-attacker-shot-dead-London-Bridge-known-police-security-sources-reveal.html

Classic British..... guys jump out of a white van and get stuck into the attacker.

Well done lads!

Glad they shot the guy. Thank God for the cops and them using the right judgment to take this crazy guy out. This is why guns matter.

This is why guns matter.

Not a bright comment.

If the lunatic had the gun, it would have been a disaster.

I hope this doesn’t spark off other Jihadis screaming about god being great while killing people.

The people who had a go at him are truly top drawer.

Yes by highly trained police officers

Stop! That’s NOT the point! The point is, a gun was used to end this thugs life. Without it, we don’t know how the outcome would have been, guns can end lives, but in this case it saved them as well, this is why I’m pro gun and always will be, today was proof why in my country I would fight to keep that right.

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Yes by highly trained police officers 

Stop! That’s NOT the point!

What would have happened if this Jihadi had been able to get hold of the kind of filthy assault weapon available in the US?

UK gun laws must remain strict if we are to avoid the kind of carnage we see in the US with firearms.

That is the point.

RIP to the victims. As a former Londoner, it's no surprise that members of the public stepped up. That's what they do. And all without the help of filthy guns.

They must have been able to ascertain that there was no detonator switch in his hand. Shooting can be the wrong thing to do sometimes... but in this case it seems to have been correct. Well done on the guys who got stuck in to this loser!

Please gentlemen, we get the message about guns. Respect.

Meanwhile Turkey is threatening to send back each country's IS fighters, even if such countries have cancelled their citizenship and disowned them.

The theory is great, but how do you go about re-educating, i.e. getting such a person to realize what harm they are doing, to themselves, to humanity, to the world and to the good name of their own religion?

 how do you go about re-educating, i.e. getting such a person to realize what harm they are doing, to themselves, to humanity, to the world and to the good name of their own religion?

You can't. It's impossible to stop an ideology. Just look at how the world is still blighted by Nazis and suchlike.

perhaps a set up to enforce new laws or whatever...

Like I said, good on the police to take this guy out, excellent work, kudos to them.

Europes globalist politicians now have to sleep in the bed they made for themselves. The demographic replacement policies bring the predicted (by critics, not by the globalists) results.

Maybe it would be better not to shoot the terrorists and learn if any more attacks are planned.

That’s option A, but I also like the option B equally.

Kill the bird kill the source. Reminds me some decades ago when anti terrorist police on the underground shot dead a Brazilian electrician without question because they thought he was a terrorists in front of the very shocked passengers. They were hauled over the coals for that very tragic mistake.

Brazilian intelligence is not known for being extremely accurate.

Europes globalist politicians now have to sleep in the bed they made for themselves. The demographic replacement policies bring the predicted (by critics, not by the globalists) results.

Oh, most definitely. Couldn’t agree more.

The event I described had nothing to do with Brazilian intelligence

Then your overall point on Brazil had no significance either.

Reminds me some decades ago when anti terrorist police on the underground shot dead a Brazilian electrician without question because they thought he was a terrorists in front of the very shocked passengers. 

For the sake of everyone's memory, this happened at around the end of July 2005, just over a decade ago.

It happened about three weeks after the 7/7/05 bombings, in which over 50 Londoners were murdered on the London subway. Two weeks later, another four terrorists attempted a suicide bombing, but their vests failed.

The police knew that there were four men in the streets intent on blowing themselves up on the London underground, so it was presumed that they would try again. In an awful case of mistaken identity, a Brazilian was shot dead when he boarded a train.

While the police were wrong, you can hardly expect them to reason with a suspected terrorist presumed to be wearing a suicide vest.

I've walked past there many times, but have no idea about where you could grab a narwhal tusk from.

@Ah so, the Narwhal tusk was displayed on the wall inside Fishmongers' Hall, and one of the assembly (another prisoner I believe) there grabbed it as a defensive weapon.

Mixed information!

Sky News are saying that he was a chef from Poland who worked at the venue...

Narwhal tusk was displayed on the wall inside Fishmongers' Hall, 

As improvised weapons go, the narwhal tusk's place in history is assured.

The Stabbings going on between rival Child Gangs within the UK outnumbers the Terrorist attacks, yet receives hardly a mention across the International News Media...

Just watched the video of the lads with a fire extinguisher and narwhal’s tusk.

Lads, take a bow. The nation owes you more than a pint.

This kind of lone-wolf terror attack in London is almost impossible to predict or prevent. Acts of terror in the UK by unhinged individuals are to some extent the logical consequence of the moribund colonial mentality that still afflicts morally blind people in government and tempts them time and again to meddle in other countries' conflicts. The internet and social media then light the fuse of an unstable personality thirsting for revenge against society which may be viewed as the proverbial chickens coming home to roost while innocent people pay the price for the follies of foreign policy.

They were hauled over the coals for that very tragic mistake.

But they got off scot-free and Ms Dick, their boss, was rewarded with promotions and showered with public honors, although she was ultimately responsible for one of the most cold-blooded murders ever perpetrated by British police, a merciless homicide which traumatized all the passengers on the train who witnessed the brutal slaying. This incident seared the conscience of the nation which took the country one more step closer to authoritarian surveillance state UK.

I consider myself very liberal, but I would not like to see those ISIS brides flown back to the UK.

This kind of lone-wolf terror attack in London is almost impossible to predict or prevent.

In fact, it was unheard of before radical islamism reached the island. But we have to maintain that mantra of cultural relativism, dont we.

Those blokes who piled on the terrorist should never have to buy a drink again.

Thank goodness he only had a knife

Imagine if he got ahold of a gun - the other civilians would not have been able to wrestle him to the ground so quickly

(A gun is a force multiplier - it affords 1 person to take on multiple other persons at the same time)