What is the world coming to?

[Joe.]

If anyone in the UK has seen the news, you will see about the man killed and chopped up in the street. It was believed the be by Muslim extremists and now the racist debate has started again. I don't know what to make of the world anymore. I don't know how somebody could do that. The guys said we should be scared. It looked like something out of a horror film. The world isn't safe anymore. I didn't think the world was safe anyway, but now my fears are maximised. I'm scared about what will happen overnight. What if more attacks happen? I refuse to bring a kid into this messed up world. Part of me wants to kill the guys who did this, but that makes me as bad as them and gives them what they want. Why should they be given healthcare that we pay for when they want us all dead? Why do they come over and claim benefits if they hate us? I don't understand the world anymore. I'm losing faith. My heart goes out to the poor guys family.

[King Malachite]

I can understand how you feel.  That's part of the reason why I have no plans of bringing a child into this world  other than religious and selfish reasons.  Bad things are always going to happen, but one thing though is that I'm not going to live in fear because when that happens, the terrorist wins. I do feel sorry for the victim and the family though.

[Sammy]

Ever been wondering why most of the crimes are committed by men?

[Kiwi4Eva]

It's a sad and tragic sign of the times we live in, but to be fair these things have been happening in places like Serbia & Afghanistan for many years.  I often see my life as prior to 9/11 and after.  Like most of the rest of the world I can remember where I was and what I was doing.

To each of you, each of us who have struggled with our lives, our living and whatever troubles you/us at this time...at least we were't there.  I saw a video of the scene and how casually the women walked past this guy with the knives, his hands crimson with his victim's blood. 

I live in a part of the world which hasn't been touched by terrorism (if that is what this is) but it is only a matter of time...In saying that we do have a significant rise in violence, a prevalence for domestic violence and our murder rate is high...Many years ago a murder would be front page national news, today the media covers sentencing of these crimes almost daily .

[FTMDiaries]

It's a very sad sign of the times. Too many people with conflicting values & traditions, forced to live cheek-by-jowl. It's no wonder that tensions are mounting under such circumstances.

The really scary thing is: someone videoed one of the suspects explaining why he did what he did, and he sounded quite rational. If his hands hadn't been drenched in an innocent man's blood, you might even have thought he was a nice guy. How can he sound so reasonable, and yet be capable of such an atrocity?

But scary as it seems, incidents like this are extremely rare, because you have to be a special kind of nutcase to do what those two men did yesterday. So please don't let it worry you too much. These kinds of nutcases have always existed (think of the Yorkshire Ripper, for example) but they are so few and far between that they tend to crop up once a decade, if that. And in a country of 70 million people, that means they're very rare indeed.

I don't know about you, Joey... but as for me, I'm wearing my 'Help for Heroes' wristband today and I will do every day until I no longer feel it is necessary to do so. I've also tried to make a donation but their website is down - which is excellent news because it means that we British have been so moved by what happened yesterday that we're inundating our main charity for helping wounded & disabled soldiers.

I will not be cowed by nutters. And neither should you.