# Truck kills dozens of people in Nice, France on Bastille Day **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 14, 2016, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truck-kills-dozens-of-people-in-nice-france-on-bastille-day/759928 "2016-07-14T21:55:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2016, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truck-kills-dozens-of-people-in-nice-france-on-bastille-day/759928/101 "2016-07-16T00:46:08Z")
> [@Grumman](#): > > Cite? There was a similar attack in Dijon which was both an Islamic terrorist attack and committed by someone with a history of mental illness, but the only similar claim I’ve seen so far regarding this attack was merely speculation. I don’t think this guy had any connections with any terrorist group. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2016, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truck-kills-dozens-of-people-in-nice-france-on-bastille-day/759928/102 "2016-07-16T01:27:59Z")
> [@Ramira](#): > > I refer to this in those comments > > I am not refering to all Americans but this type of comment Thank you for the clarification, then. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2016, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truck-kills-dozens-of-people-in-nice-france-on-bastille-day/759928/103 "2016-07-16T21:48:58Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > It appears that the rodeo clown who committed this crime was not a Radical Islamic Extremist but rather someone who was off his meds. Queue up major backpedaling by “pundits”. Once again, to respond to the lunatics on cable news, I don’t think this guy had any connections with any terrorist group. ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2016, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truck-kills-dozens-of-people-in-nice-france-on-bastille-day/759928/104 "2016-07-16T23:16:40Z")
> [@](#): > > Ramira Ramira is offline > Member > > Join Date: Jan 2003 > Posts: 2,145 > I refer to this in those comments > > Quote: > Originally Posted by GusNSpot View Post > This attitude is the problem because it is still, “We’ll fight as long as no innocent gets hurt. If innocents get hurt we will send in our citizens with no bullets for their weapons and let politicians determine the rules of conduct, you know, how tight to put on their handcuff because we don’t care if they die.”… > We are so doomed. > > I am not refering to all Americans but this type of comment My comments were/are not directed at you but: What is your solution? Fighting this fight the way the world is doing now is so obviously not working. More innocents dieing than bad guys. So your suggestion is to ??? ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2016, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truck-kills-dozens-of-people-in-nice-france-on-bastille-day/759928/105 "2016-07-17T03:48:03Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > Once again, to respond to the lunatics on cable news, I don’t think this guy had any connections with any terrorist group. What do you base that on? The French seem to be saying it was a terrorist attack and the guy was ‘radicalized very quickly’. ISIS is calling the guy a ‘soldier’, which is ISIS-speak for ‘some guy randomly killed a bunch of people and told us he was on our side at some point’. What do you base your assertion on…and why, if the French themselves are saying the guy was a terrorists, are the ‘lunatics on cable news’, well, lunatics for saying presumably the same thing? ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2016, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truck-kills-dozens-of-people-in-nice-france-on-bastille-day/759928/106 "2016-07-17T04:35:48Z")
> [@XT](#): > > What do you base that on? The French seem to be saying it was a terrorist attack and the guy was ‘radicalized very quickly’. ISIS is calling the guy a ‘soldier’, which is ISIS-speak for ‘some guy randomly killed a bunch of people and told us he was on our side at some point’. What do you base your assertion on…and why, if the French themselves are saying the guy was a terrorists, are the ‘lunatics on cable news’, well, lunatics for saying presumably the same thing? Every time a Muslim kills others people claim that he or she wasn’t “really” associated with ISIS but that they’re just crazy. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truck-kills-dozens-of-people-in-nice-france-on-bastille-day/759928/107 "2016-07-19T00:07:45Z")
> [@XT](#): > > What do you base that on? The French seem to be saying it was a terrorist attack and the guy was ‘radicalized very quickly’. ISIS is calling the guy a ‘soldier’, which is ISIS-speak for ‘some guy randomly killed a bunch of people and told us he was on our side at some point’. What do you base your assertion on…and why, if the French themselves are saying the guy was a terrorists, are the ‘lunatics on cable news’, well, lunatics for saying presumably the same thing? [Nice attack: Ties to ISIS not yet established, official says.](http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/18/europe/nice-france-attack/) ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truck-kills-dozens-of-people-in-nice-france-on-bastille-day/759928/108 "2016-07-19T01:04:19Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > [Nice attack: Ties to ISIS not yet established, official says.](http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/18/europe/nice-france-attack/) Right. So…why are the guys on your cable ‘lunatics’? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truck-kills-dozens-of-people-in-nice-france-on-bastille-day/759928/109 "2016-07-19T10:06:28Z")
> [@XT](#): > > Right. So…why are the guys on your cable ‘lunatics’? 😕 Ratings. Sensationalism. [Lead up to “Sweeps Week”.](http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/how-sweeps-week-works.htm) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truck-kills-dozens-of-people-in-nice-france-on-bastille-day/759928.md?page=5)