From a random sampling of news in today’s BBC
Malta blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia dies in car bomb attack
Afghanistan police ‘stop Kabul truck bomber’ – "The truck was carrying nearly three tonnes of explosives and two bombs which had been hidden under boxes of tomatoes, a senior official said. " – “On 31 May a bomb packed inside a sewage truck exploded in the city’s diplomatic quarter, killing about 150 people and wounding some 400, most of them civilians.”
Somalia attack: 165 unidentified bodies buried – At least 276 people have died and the government news agency Sonna says only 111 of them have been identified.
From a lengthy article just covering bomb attacks in Pakistan so far this year :16 February - At least 88 people were killed and over 350 others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the Shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Sehwan, 125 kilometers north of Jamshoro.
37,000 or so people will die under the wheels or behind the wheel of cars and trucks in the US this year alone
How many people have died in Europe in the latest trend in gun free countries of driving cars or trucks at high speed into large crowds?
And throwing acid at the faces of people you don’t like is also a hot trend in England and probably other places.
I’m sorry, what epidemic where we talking about? Violent people (and stupid, careless people in auto deaths) are the problem, not the modality used.
Mass shooting of the sort that just occurred are so rare as to be almost random blips but truck bomb attacks are a muli-time a day occurrence worldwide.
