Revelation on Brussels Attackers Fuels Fears of New Assaults
Months after the Brussels bombing, new information has surfaced that suggests that another attack had been planned for Paris that was never carried out, meaning that even more people are involved in the underground terrorist network than was suspected by anti-terrorism organizations such as the French Center for the Analysis of Terrorism.
Personally, this is very troubling for me. Not only am I now more fearful of more attacks coming in world centers, but I am troubled by the fact that there isn't a good solution for stopping this. Thinking about the whole volatile situation with the Middle East, it is obvious that deep involvement in the area is not a good solution. Personally, what I think needs to happen is A) increased gun and weapon control. Many European countries have strict gun control, but they haven't completely outlawed guns and explosives for personal ownership, and I think that doing that is a step in the right direction for keeping the terrorists away from tools with which they can kill people, and B) more government funding for terrorism-prevention organizations. I found it troubling that I've never heard of the multiple terrorism-prevention organizations mentioned in the article, and though I have no real proof of this, I think that this is slightly indicative of the idea that these organizations aren't getting much done, considering the high amount of recent terrorist attacks, and I think that it should be governments' responsibilities to make sure that these organizations have enough resources to work to the full extent that they need to to get their job done. People are making a big deal about border policing and the immigrant situation, but many of the suspected terrorists are citizens who have been living inside Europe for many years, sometimes even born there, which means that what most of the European governments' attentions have been focused on is a waste of time in terms of terrorism prevention.
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