Letter: Security Barriers Will Not Prevent ‘Lone Wolf’ Attack

Published on: 5 Feb, 2019
Updated on: 5 Feb, 2019

From James Walsh

Labour borough councillor for Stoke ward

(Council Faces Dilemma Over Anti-Terror Barriers)

This will be decided in a few weeks time and some of us on the council have yet to see the security advice or worked-through justification for the barriers.

I am not happy just waving something like this through without seeing more information or having a very good reason as to why Guildford needs barriers. As an earlier correspondent notes, terror attacks come in many guises and a “lone wolf” with a weapon will not be stopped by chunks of concrete or metal in the High Street.

The broader issue is – how far do we change the way we live, and the places we live in, to accommodate the crazy notions and possible actions of a minority of fanatics?