What makes Monday’s horrific van attack so deeply terrifying is almost the “banality” of the new violence, said an expert in crime and human behaviour. A major motive for violence, however, is violence as a form of expression to release frustrations, anger or out of-control emotions. The van attack is even more unnerving because it happened in Canada, a country where the baseline for public violence is so mercifully low. “No city is immune, no time is immune, and no place is immune.”“And so just be alert — be on your watch. “But keep in mind the probabilities (of similar violence) are very low.”• Email: skirkey@postmedia.com | Twitter: sharon_kirkey

Source: National Post April 23, 2018 23:54 UTC