Peeps on the Street: Community reacts to Paris Terror Attacks

“I think that it was a really tragic time for Paris. Obviously they’ve had the Charlie Hebdo attacks and this is on a much grander scale. I think this attack is much more important in a way because these people didn’t just attack the media or the politicians, they attacked the regular people of Paris. They attacked citizens, they attacked children and that sends much more a message than attacking...

“It’s scary that they targeted such seemingly random locations. These were just people at a random restaurant, or seeing a concert. They were killed doing these ordinary things, and it made me think about how just a couple weeks ago, I went to a concert. There’s no security. Anything can happen.”

“There’s been so many terrible things like what happened in Lebanon, Syria, and Paris and those things happen continuously and I just don’t understand why they keep happening. People are dying every day and we can’t stop it, it’s really hard.”

“I think it’s especially concerning because it’s going to fuel a lot of the xenophobic movements that are already emerging. And obviously the terror is awful but I’m also really afraid of the backlash that’s going to come from it and the continuation of antagonism between various countries in the West.”

“Things that happen in other places aren’t just other places’ problems. When any event happens it’s kind of a whole world thing.”

“Oh, the ‘Pray For Paris’ thing? I didn’t post, but when I saw them I didn’t really know how to feel about it. I think that people had good intentions, but I’m not sure if it was for a trend or if they actually cared.”

“I think we have the right to criticize it because that’s prioritizing other cities simply because of the fact that we adore France for its democracy. But at the end of the day we’re all humans and we should value everyone’s life as we value France’s.”

“Part of what is difficult for me is trying to explain it to my ten year old son who, as much as I try, there’s no keeping anything from him. He didn’t know about it on Friday but he was watching the football game on Sunday and they have news clips come up. He can read, once a kid can read that’s it. You can’t hide anything from them. He asked me about it and I had to tell him. For a ten ...

“It’s just really awful because I used to think that France was safe and that if anything was to happen, I would go back there because for me, it was the one place that was safe from terrorist attacks. This was the most deadly attack in France since World War II. I’m aware that bad things happen in all the countries but this really shows that no country is safe fom terrorism anymore and it sucks.�...