It wasn’t a
gun. It wasn’t a bomb. It wasn’t a
machete. It was a truck. 2 -3 minutes.
84 now dead, including 10 children. Do you understand now? It’s not the
weapon. It’s the ideology. ~ A viral Facebook post.
I’ve had an epiphany. Yes, I totally understand now. If someone with a twisted ideology or some random radical Islamist wants to take out a crowd of people then he’ll find a
way. It might be fertilizer rife with ammonium
nitrate, it might be a box cutter, it might be a baseball bat (as happened in
Deltona Florida in 2004) or it might be a simple kitchen knife as happened in
Osaka in 2001. Most recently of course,
it was a truck. "Where there's a will, there's a way," goes the old saw.