Terror Attacks - What to do?

Recent events in Tunisia have brought this issue to the forefront of our minds. A single gunman going bananas with an automatic weapon and murdering innocent tourists, probably when they are at their most vulnerable, lying on a beach in swimwear. Horrendous, terrible. Indeed it is. So what to do?

What is it that terrorists want, indeed what does the word terrorist actually denote? What does a terrorist now have to do? Anything or nothing.That may seem a strange question but let's look at it.

A terrorists sole purpose in life is not necessarily to murder, or to blow things up. A terrorists main purpose is to bring terror into our lives. Terror. Being afraid of something that might happen because we now know it has happened before. So what does a terrorist now need to do in a holiday resort abroad, any holiday resort? It really could happen anywhere. The answer is nothing. Not if we let the recent happenings in Sousse determine what we do. If we decide now not to go on holiday then have the terrorists achieved their aim? Have they planted that seed of doubt in our minds that make us decide not to do something because we are afraid of the possible consequences? If the answer is yes then they have achieved their aim. In effect they have won. That is a difficult thing to accept isn't it?

So do we go on holiday? Do we fly on an airplane? Do we go, for instance, to London, New York, France where there have been atrocities in the past? Makes you think doesn't it?

I don't have the answers to these questions. We all need to weigh up the risks of all that we do and then make our own decisions. All I would say is that we need to understand what terrorism is and

what it can do to us. What are the real risks? What are the risks actually perceived by us because the terrorist wants us to look at them in that way? Who is going to run our lives? Us or the terrorist?

Really, really difficult isn't it?