Total fatalities/injuries from terrorism in the UK since 1970

[sasguru]

https://www.graphiq.com/vlp/b9oeLjtXOND

Peak years for deaths were 1972 and 1988. And yet I don't remember such wailing and anguish and generally snowflake behaviour in the 70s/80s.
Is it simply the case that today's generation is weak or is it that because it's Muslims rather than Catholics now, it's in some people's interest to make it look worse than it is?

[The_Equalizer]

https://www.graphiq.com/vlp/b9oeLjtXOND

Peak years for deaths were 1972 and 1988. And yet I don't remember such wailing and anguish and generally snowflake behaviour in the 70s/80s.
Is it simply the case that today's generation is weak or is it that because it's Muslims rather than Catholics now, it's in some people's interest to make it look worse than it is?

The nature of 24-hour news and that fact that anyone can band about their opinion on the likes of FB and Twitter?

[northernladyuk]

https://www.graphiq.com/vlp/b9oeLjtXOND

Peak years for deaths were 1972 and 1988. And yet I don't remember such wailing and anguish and generally snowflake behaviour in the 70s/80s.
Is it simply the case that today's generation is weak or is it that because it's Muslims rather than Catholics now, it's in some people's interest to make it look worse than it is?

There is a lot of radical Brexiteer virtue signalling going on from LondonVermanc and his Thomas Mair apologist fellow travellers.

[Bee]

Terrorist attacks every year, I'm shocked.
I thought it was less.

[sasguru]

Terrorist attacks every year, I'm shocked.
I thought it was less.

As kids we got inured to it, it was just mentioned on the news with a calm matter of factness.
I date the collapse of the stiff upper lip to 1997 and Diana's death, that's when it became apparent.
But there is still a core of tough people in this country.

[northernladyuk]

Terrorist attacks every year, I'm shocked.
I thought it was less.

You thought terrorism was bad?

During the 21st century, terrorism has been an insignificant cause of mortality
in the United Kingdom. The annualised average of five deaths caused by
terrorism in England and Wales over this period compares with total
accidental deaths in 2010 of 17,201, including 123 cyclists killed in traffic
accidents, 102 personnel killed in Afghanistan, 29 people drowned in the
bathtub and five killed by stings from hornets, wasps and bees.

http://terrorismlegislationreviewer....-acts-2011.pdf

[NotAllThere]

...Is it simply the case that today's generation is weak...

That's my kids' verdicts - that today's generation are largely self-indulgent whining little snowflakes.

[vetran]

You don't think that now we realise that the Government can & should prevent them is a driver?

We saw the IRA as a war, casualties were expected. We see ISIS as terrorist scum.

[The_Equalizer]

That's my kids' verdicts - that today's generation are largely self-indulgent whining little snowflakes.

Growing up in the 1970s/80s I do remember the War generation being of a genuinely different mindset. It was still fashionable to take the pi55 out of them - stiff up lip and all that - which I never understood why. It was something that seemed to have started in the 1960s.

[northernladyuk]

You don't think that now we realise that the Government can & should prevent them is a driver?

We saw the IRA as a war, casualties were expected. We see ISIS as terrorist scum.

I seem to remember the IRA being seen as terrorists, not soldiers.