In my mind, this had already happened. For all intents and purposes, the planned massacre on that train a few months ago did happened, and all those people that were supposed to be shot with that AK-47 did die.

Because someone was ready to do it, had gone through the preparation, got a machine gun through security or lack thereof, and just purely by chance he was stopped at the very, very last moment.

That should have been treated as if it already happened. This is going to keep happening. The problem is a fertile breeding ground among a population that will not in a hundred years fit in. Now Europe is taking a large second helping.

Call me a racist and this a knee-jerk xenophobic response. Remember all the things you're saying now, your criticism of the ones who have been warning about this type of conflict all along. You're taking the position that there's nothing to worry about, now part of the responsibility of the consequences will be on you.

Do you have to worry about getting killed in a terrorist attack? Of course you're more likely to die in a house fire, a car accident or by drowning, and infinitely more likely to die by all of those mundane thing added up. That is not the point.

Do you have to worry about increasing polarization, unrest, hatred and division? Absolutely.

You can chide people for being xenophobes on reddit and take the moral high ground, that's not going to do anything when "the masses" reach a critical point.

That's the thing to really worry about. What's the answer? I don't know, but somehow I feel pretty sure it is not to open the borders wide for any and all Syrian refugees or people claiming to be.

This is a decision that will affect the future of Europe for decades and decades to come. But I've left Europe and this kind of discussion doesn't go anywhere. So.. go luck with all of that.