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How safe do you feel?

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  • 16-11-2015 10:52pm
    #1
    The Sun King
    Registered Users Posts: 488 ✭✭


    Seemingly 91% of Irish people don't feel like the State is properly prepared to react to a terrorist attack.

    So how safe do you feel?

    I live in Limerick and have to say I've never felt unsafe here, despite maybe one or two times walking through the dodgier areas. Nothing in relation to terrorism.


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    The Sidewards Man
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    Is this another dole thread?


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    #3
    mdwexford
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    Safe.

    If anything did happen we would be fcuked though.


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    #4
    Fiskar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,599 ✭✭✭Fiskar


    Compared to where you are I'm perfectly safe.


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    #5
    smash
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    Sure we have our iodine tablets. Be grand...


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    #6
    Steve012
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    safe n snug as a bug in a rug.. :D


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Absolutely, perfectly safe. Or more precisely, that's how I personally feel.


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    SCOOP 64
    Registered Users Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭SCOOP 64


    Dont think the State is properly prepared to react to a terrorist attack
    but i dont think we need to worry about a attack here, i think isis have bigger fish to fry.


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    retro:electro
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    I feel safe right now because we aren't a threat to anyone. However if anything were to happen in this country I have absolutely no faith in our leaders whatsoever.


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    #10
    Riverireland
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    Yes I feel safe right now. There again those out in Paris Friday night also felt safe. It looks like we are as safe as Isis currently want us to be right now. Being a neutral country doesn't do us any harm right now. France declaring war makes me feel unsettled.


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    Custardpi
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    I'd say we'd be woefully prepared to deal with something like Paris. Sure the Army Rangers & ERU are well thought of but could our hospitals deal with that sort of carnage? Are the Guards adequately resourced to bring those responsible to justice? On the other hand the reality is that we're not prestigious a target enough to be high on ISIS's list, although that doesn't rule out the possibility of a self-radicalised Irish "lone-wolf" going on a solo run.


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    #12
    Fox_In_Socks
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    We live in one of the safest times in history. Our chances of being raped, murdered, beaten, robbed are very low compared to the past.

    Fear is what makes you buy more, watch more, consume more. Be proactive, learn and watch and be aware.

    If you buy into the idea that you are a prince on this earth and that your body and mind are capable of dealing with whatever life brings, that terrorists are nothing more than the same matter as you or me and can be reduced quite easily to base matter again by whatever means, then you will be a man, my son.

    What was the question again?


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    The Sidewards Man
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    smash wrote: »
    Sure we have our iodine tablets. Be grand...

    I thought they were viagra.


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    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,415 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Doesn't really matter.It was all over in Paris before the authorities got there,so prepared is kinda irrelevant.


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    mattP
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    I feel safe because there's no immediate threat to us.
    If there was I wouldn't feel protected, I mean the guards are well and good but we wouldn't have any way to combat "terrorism" as such.


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    The Sidewards Man
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    mattP wrote: »
    If there was I wouldn't feel protected, I mean the guards are well and good but we wouldn't have any way to combat "terrorism" as such.

    Bribe them with donuts maybe


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    Fox_In_Socks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


    mattP wrote: »
    I feel safe because there's no immediate threat to us.
    If there was I wouldn't feel protected, I mean the guards are well and good but we wouldn't have any way to combat "terrorism" as such.

    Of course there is. Citizen militias for example. The fact that we give control of our safety to the army and the police forces doesn't mean that if they fail or are overwhelmed, that something else won't take their place?


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    Cienciano
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    I feel 100% safe. But properly prepared? It's impossible to be properly prepared for an attack. All it requires is a simple home made bomb in a public area or a gun. The only way to prepare is to have a clean up operation.


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    #19
    questionmark?
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    Fox_In_Socks wrote: »
    We live in one of the safest times in history. Our chances of being raped, murdered, beaten, robbed are very low compared to the past.

    Fear is what makes you buy more, watch more, consume more. Be proactive, learn and watch and be aware.

    If you buy into the idea that you are a prince on this earth and that your body and mind are capable of dealing with whatever life brings, that terrorists are nothing more than the same matter as you or me and can be reduced quite easily to base matter again by whatever means, then you will be a man, my son.

    What was the question again?

    The question was does air conditioning discriminate against men. Would ya listen like!


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    cork guitar player
    Registered Users Posts: 147 ✭✭cork guitar player


    We got nothing to worry about, they haven't gone away you know ;)




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    #21
    Jim Bob Scratcher
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭Jim Bob Scratcher


    100% Safe

    Isis have no beef with us


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    cork guitar player
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    Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »
    100% Safe

    Isis have no beef with us

    What about 'merica using Shannon on the way to the ME?


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    XR3i
    Site Banned Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭XR3i


    feel safe

    at the same time planning on getting some weapons training and a couple of good revolvers


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    wendell borton
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    France was attacked because it is a liberal democratic republic ,therefore we are also a target for the nut jobs. But in all likelihood there's numerous other things more likely to kill me, so I'm not too bothered.


    "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Benjamin Franklin


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    sonny.knowles
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    cork guitar player wrote: »
    What about 'merica using Shannon on the way to the ME?

    A non event.


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    Jim Bob Scratcher
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    cork guitar player wrote: »
    What about 'merica using Shannon on the way to the ME?

    As long as we're not bombing them we'll be grand.


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    #27
    Fox_In_Socks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


    Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »
    As long as we're not bombing them we'll be grand.

    Would the RA be up for getting involved over there?


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    #28
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users Posts: 7,761 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    sonny.knowles wrote: »
    A non event.

    Dunno, if these nut jobs are looking for a spectacular I would have thought Shannon is wide open - taking down a plane load of returning gi's I would have thought would be easily carried out.


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    Cortina_MK_IV
    Registered Users Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭Cortina_MK_IV


    Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »
    100% Safe

    Isis have no beef with us

    Maybe because it wouldn't be Halal.


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    cork guitar player
    Registered Users Posts: 147 ✭✭cork guitar player


    sonny.knowles wrote: »
    A non event.


    Really?? lol

    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/district-court/security-expert-tells-trial-use-of-shannon-is-essential-to-us-military-1.2116212


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    #31
    wakka12
    Registered Users Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Safe, but only because I think a terrorist attack wont occur here in the near future. Not because of the government making me feel safe.


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