LIES, DAMNED LIES AND .....

LIES, DAMNED LIES AND …… Recently, I read that a person in the US is 12,000 times more likely to be shot by a fellow American than a terrorist. This nugget of information was based on statistics which showed that between 2005 and 2015 there were 24 deaths attributed to Islamic terrorism against the 301,797 gun deaths. Wow, I thought, that just goes to show. But then the year 2001 came to mind, when almost 3,000 Americans were killed and more than 6,000 wounded, in a single day.

Funny thing statistics, you can make them say whatever you want them to.

There is one thing I am certain of though. You can only beat terrorism by the rule of law and application of a civilised judicial process. Leave those out at our peril, for then we would move to a state of global terrorism, where thuggish political leaders will kill, indiscriminately.

And civilisation ceases to exist.