I think that&#x27;s too simple a view.<p>Paris of recent decades has not experienced frequent terror attacks.  It&#x27;s not expected to happen there.  It is not a war zone.  There aren&#x27;t belligerent factions attacking each other.  It does not have the sectarian violent history of Beirut.<p>When ETA was bombing around Spain and it became commonplace, it also received little attention after a while.  That&#x27;s just how it goes.