Usman Khan intended to kill all of the Learning Together staff. Still, better them than the lives of decent people. They will not be missed.
I read a comment from those those that are judging this case (struggling to find it now) that mentioned the right to fairness (for her) supersedes any national security interest. The lives of decent people then have been relegated to somewhere further down the pecking order.
The attitude from the great and good of the UK has been that if we treat others nicely nicely then they will like us and become like us, this thinking only proves the great and good are naïve fools but it is the people that ay for their foolishness.
These types and their thinking tell us it is wrong to put up barriers or otherwise protect oneself as such moves actually cause criminality and violence They think they can lead us to a world of commune, peace and love, but in the meantime an attacker can only be the victim of a badly governed society, that being the real villain of the peace.
So we continue to tear down protections at every opportunity as a sort of penance and restorative move. We have a Police force that is subdued and ill equipped to take on armed violence, likewise the citizenry and much to the annoyance of the peace and love brigade we still put up whatever barriers we can.
Paradoxically this all goes to create an even more divided, bunkered down and fractured society, or ghettoization.