This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, June 5th, 2017. I'm Caleb Brown.

Terrorism undertaken by so-called lone wolves without the means, assistance, and expertise of actual terror groups is no less a tragedy, but

it is a cause for a measured reaction.

Cato Institute Senior Fellow Trevor Thrall says the recent tragedies for which ISIS has claimed

responsibility smack of desperation.

What we know now is that another lone wolf would-be terrorist has used a low technology approach to killing people and causing fear in London.

And it looks a lot like many of the recent attacks in Paris and other places where without much training or without any real connections that anyone can see to ISIS or any other terrorist group, angry, upset,

sometimes mentally disturbed people have taken upon themselves to do horrible things.

One of the things that, you know, as horrible as these events are, it seems at least promising

that these folks are engaging in these kinds of attacks with vehicles and not sophisticated bombs.

Absolutely.

It's a very clear sign that whatever people's fears about Al Qaeda or ISIS might be, I think, you know, in many people's

mind, in many people's minds, in fact surveys show as many as three quarters of

Americans think that ISIS has secret cells hidden around the

country waiting to pop out and do major damage.

And I think attacks like these just keep making it more and more clear that that's just not the case.

The only thing that people who are on ISIS's side have is their cars or a

truck. They don't have access to fancy weapons or big bombs or things that could

actually do a lot of damage.

They really don't.

So, you know, if you want to see a silver line here, that's definitely part of it.

And there is, I guess, sort of a common response response at least among Americans and probably people in other

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