Terrorists Deliver Their Message With Lethal Simplicity
Mr. Trump used the London attack to take a swipe at gun control, declaring, "Do you notice we are not having a gun debate right now?"
But the last major jihadist attackers in two episodes in the United States, in San Bernardino, Calif., and in Orlando, Fla., used guns to kill 14 people and 49 people, more than the seven deaths in London.
In the aftermath of the van-and-knife assault that left seven people dead in London on Saturday night — the third deadly attack in three months in Britain — it is hard to remember
that years ago many experts predicted slaughter on a far larger scale.
And former Representative Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, who was severely wounded in a 2011 shooting
and is now an advocate of gun control, responded to the president’s Twitter post with a statistic about gun violence in America:
Mr. President, every day we are having a gun debate because every day 90 people in our country die from gun violence.
Islamic State said that These are pathetic targets,
Mr. Vidino, who is completing a study of jihadist attacks in the West during the three years since the Islamic State declared its own state in parts of Syria
and Iraq, counted 52 attacks in that time, leaving 402 dead.
On Saturday night, he offered a standard message of support for London via Twitter:
Whatever the United States can do to help out in London and the U. K., we will be there - WE ARE WITH YOU.
