Mass stabbing in central London leaves woman dead and six injured
 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...ad-and-injured

What to say? :nope:

Note: Thursday 4 August 2016 01.56 BST

Six minutes.

Six minutes from call to suspect tasered.

Bloody good work Met police, as far as containing and controlling the situation goes I don't think they could have done much better. Goes to show all the preparing that has been done after the recent attacks in Europe has paid off.

Glad they caught him! Feel sorry for the victims and their families.

Yea, just a shame that something serious has to happen for Governments to act, ie improve security of its citizens.

Kneejerk reaction.

Humanity and more to the point, governments are notorious for it.

To be fair we have had a bit of an advantage over, say French or German security services, because of The Troubles, so a lot of the infrastructure and security network has been in place for a while and the general public, for the most part, are more accustomed to it.

I'm worried how our force would respond since we never had a terror attack :hmmm:

Just seen this. Hear hear Oberon.

Unconcealed carry of chili pods will prevent terror attacks, otherwise use a kukri. And i always thought the latter was a nepalese thing :hmmm:

Seriously, condolences to the victims' relatives and friends. And a good fast reaction, but to counter isolated lunatics in time, before such things happen will always be impossible.

Rgr that :yep:

Russell Square may have got all the headlines last night but it wasn't the only stabbing in London, a 30 year old man was stabbed to death in Battersea, and two others injured.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-36972788

And a moped gang attempt to smash and grab was foiled by Flying Squad officers, sadly four officers were injured during the arrests though, one seriously:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-36963851

Summer in the city, as they say. :nope:

Events over the last few month only serve to remind everyone how true that statement really is.

Condolences to the victims and their friends and family.

Yep, been a long time since the streets of London were paved with gold.

A nice juicy chilli would be a perfect close quarters weapon. Jam one of those things into someones eye and they'll wish they'd been pepper sprayed.
And it's completely legal, you can wear it around your neck or wrist.

Close quarter fighting with a terrorist?

Lol i'm sure you guys are joking.

Surely...

A knife attack is close quarters.

And I meant any attack, terror, elections or mugging.

I'm fully aware of what close-quarter fighting involves.

First, you have to identify the target.

Then get close enough.


Good luck on both of those, before the bomb is detonated with you being turned into pink mist.

Unless of course the terrorist is a child, with explosives strapped to their body for easy identification.

But then there still remains the getting in close issue.


http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oC8TwXe4PF...00/Mortal6.jpg


http://maniacmuslim.com/wp-content/u...-terrorist.jpg


http://www.kevinohagan.com/Images/About/Combat.jpg


https://talknigerian.com/wp-content/...in-Nigeria.jpg

Is this a stabbing thread or a bombing thread ???

Yes.

I think we need knife and bomb control. Guns are so yesterday.

Actually we need a chilli pepper control, that's what I started with

Popcorn control.

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