It is impossible to stop, whatever the rating nobody really changes their way of life because deep down nobody really believes it will happen to them. Because it probably won't. So go about as normal, keep calm and carry on as the war generation used to say. Time for this generation to walk that...
Edit - Europe not U.K. But that's still a ridiculously high number of well trained nutters that can move across our borders at whim, resident or not, even if some will have seen the error of their ways and been equally traumatised by what they witness as 'freedom fighters' in Syria and Iraq.
I think you're onto something re: your 3rd point. It's not just 'the rich' though. Tomorrow people will start to forget that tolerance comes at a price and obviously our politicians of all persuasions have to balance the price of security with the cost in lives. Hard as that is to read for some...
30k jihadists returned from disintegrating IS running around in U.K. Known to security services but we can only arrest seemingly at the moment they're about to kill. Either we're going to have to be incredibly lucky or get used to people dying and the same old same old political responses. We've...
Eh?! Bit OTT. Reduction in our police forces has everything to do with? Aren't you being a bit guilty of over reaction? We don't know it's an Islamic attacked yet plenty on here are saying it is. Are you going to ban them too?!
I really don't think children enter the thought process. Just soft target, big city, late night, chance to maximise casualties all likely to feature in the attackers mind set.
Thoughts go out to victims and family. Sadly suicide bombing is now a way of life in the modern world. How did humanity get so sick that people will blow themselves up in order to kill and maim others?