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Originally Posted by RT14
Up until today I've always at least been able to pretend or convince myself this kind of #### isn't anything to be concerned about in Alberta, now that feeling of security in my home province is gone, or at least waning. I'd say he was quite successful at being a terrorist.
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Fair point I suppose, but I wonder how many people were persisting in this misapprehension. It can and will continue to happen everywhere, now. It's a new reality of life.
What I meant was that generally, the ISIS-inspired attacker's goals are twofold. First, kill as many infidels as possible. Second, martyr yourself. Here, he somehow managed to avoid inflicting any fatalities at all, and didn't end up as a suicide by cop. Moreover, he's in a place that doesn't execute people. Finally, he perpetrated the attack it in a jurisdiction where (since 2011) you can get consecutively applied parole ineligibilities, with the result that - and some criminal lawyer can correct me if I'm wrong here - it's possible his sentence could be, "you die in prison". meaning he's probably going to have to wait for those 72 virgins. Or rather, deal with a hopefully ever-increasing angst at the possibility that they aren't waiting for him over a span of several decades.
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