Absolutely awful news, but I cant say i'm surprised. The number of times I have been in the O2 watching a concert and wondering if something would happen given how tightly packed that number of people are in one place, and the slack security checks. Add to this the 5,000 or so on the UK Terrorist watchlist, and this is what we get. And it wont be the last. We can all change our Facebook profile pictures to say "I heart Manchester", or "Pray for Manchester", but that wont change anything. Next month it will be some other city in the world.
Trouble is how do you deal with people with this intent who now live among us? And how do you stop people like this travelling between countries when Europe has open borders? Sorry, but in the name of tolerance we have created this problem throughout Europe and now we are paying the price. Some may disagree with me on that, fair enough, but once the seeds have been sown, even just one or two, the weed spreads, and spreads and unless you get all the roots, it will always come back.
I dont know what the answer is anymore, I just feel so desperately sad for those people who died last night on what should have been a fun night out. Well..... the dust may settle in Manchester, but something else will happen in a few months unless the world really wakes up and starts getting tough on these people.
.... just waiting for the Police to announce this person is known to them and was on the watch list..............
Sad, sad, awful news and what a state of the world we all live in today