Possible terror attack in Nice, France

[dm1333]

Reports say at least 30 dead after a truck plows into a crowd in Nice. 

http://heavy.com/news/2016/07/isis-islamic-state-bastille-day-july-14-nice-france-promenade-des-anglais-terrorism-amaq-news/

[Hawkmoon]

Count now up to 73 dead, 100 injured:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/14/truck-crashes-into-crowd-at-bastille-day-celebrations-in-nice2/

[Fitz]

we don't yet know the motivation of the attackers... we may never know...

[Angel Eyes]

Petition to ban assault trucks:

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/ban-evil-assault-semi-trucks

[TommyGunn]

Now up to 77 dead per report on Fox News during O'Reilly Factor.

[zxcvbob]

ISIS claiming it doesn't mean much.  They could just be trying to steal the credit because it was a "good one".  But I bet it was a muslim terrorist, whether affiliated with any organization or not.  All the news reports are going too far out of their way to avoid saying it.

The Franks or the Germans will have enough and get their bloodlust on pretty soon, like in the olde days.

[MechAg94]

I am seeing some mention that there were gunmen on the truck firing at people which provides more explanation for the large body count. 

[dm1333]

Petition to ban assault trucks:

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/ban-evil-assault-semi-trucks

I feel like I should say we wait a day or two before politicizing this, but the political leadership in our country never seems to do that, or to miss an opportunity to push their agenda. 

Having said that my prayers go out to those affected by this.  And a pox on those responsible for this.

[Angel Eyes]

Having said that my prayers go out to those affected by this.  And a pox on those responsible for this.

Absolutely.

[RoadKingLarry]

Obviously another case where the NRA is at fault.

[Perd Hapley]

I feel like I should say we wait a day or two before politicizing this.

I don't.

[Hawkmoon]

 All the news reports are going too far out of their way to avoid saying it.

Looks like they're admitting it. It would be difficult not to.

http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160715/1042999633/nice-truck-driver-tunisia.html

[zxcvbob]

What would Charles Martel do?

[wmenorr67]

Reports that a father and son from Texas are among the dead.

[roo_ster]

If we dont let muslims in our countries to slaughter us by the score the terrorists will have won.

The real tragedy would be if we lost our diversity.

[wmenorr67]

Count up to 84.

[lee n. field]

Quick!  Somebody start a hashtag campaign!

[Perd Hapley]

March 2012:
    A French Algerian killed three soldiers, a teacher and three young students at a Jewish school in Toulouse.  He was later shot dead.

23 May 2013:
    A convert to Islam named as Alexandre Dhaussy stabbed a French soldier in the neck at La Defense in Paris. The soldier survived the attack.

December 2014:
    A French national born in Burundi attacked several police officers at a station in Joue-les-Tours. He had a knife and shouted "Allahu Akbar". He was shot dead.

7 January 2015:
    Saïd and Chérif Kouachi shoot dead 12 people at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris.

8 January 2015:
    Amedy Coulibaly killed a policewoman before entering a Jewish supermarket in Paris where he shot dead four others. Both Coulibaly and the Kouachi brothers were later shot dead by police.

26 June 2015:
    In a chemical factory near Grenoble, one man was beheaded and several others were injured. One man was arrested in what President François Hollande called a terror attack.

21 August 2015:
    Three off-duty American marines overpowered an armed gunman on a high-speed train from Amsterdam to Paris. Three people including the suspect were injured. The Americans and several other passengers held the man down until police arrived.  He was later arrested in Arras, northern France.

13 November 2015:
    Scores dead as men armed with Kalashnikovs and grenades carried out a series of attacks at restaurants, a concert hall and outside the Stade de France in Paris. President Hollande closed the borders and declared a state of national emergency.

13 June 2016: A police officer and his wife, a police secretary, were stabbed to death inside their home near Paris by a man who said he had pledged allegiance to Islamic State.

14 July 2016: More than 80 people were killed and scores injured when a terrorist drove a lorry into a crowd of Bastille Day revellers in Nice.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/15/nice-terror-attack-on-bastille-day-everything-we-know-so-far-on/

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

The French are not us
this keeps up they will handle this it will be messy

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[Ben]

MSNBC is blaming it on a "truck crash". If they change their narrative, it will be to blame the guns in the back for hijacking the truck and making the driver do this.

As CSD said, as much as we may make "used French rifle" jokes, they will likely handle this in a more expeditious way than would we, under our current administration.

[Perd Hapley]

As CSD said, as much as we may make "used French rifle" jokes, they will likely handle this in a more expeditious way than would we, under our current administration.

They have shown some stones lately, but if they were going to "handle it," you'd think they'd have done it by now.

[wmenorr67]

And people are all over Great Britain for pulling out of the EU.

[makattak]

And people are all over Great Britain for pulling out of the EU.

My immediate thought when I read this news was that France may be next to do so.

[Fitz]

My immediate thought when I read this news was that France may be next to do so.

that's only part of the solution. They have a MASSIVE muslim population

[Ben]

Bit of a tangent, but this was just released regarding the previous nightclub attacks:

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/07/15/french-lawmakers-told-bataclan-terrorists-tortured-disemboweled-victims.html