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It's a lot less likely that a small group of middle eastern terrorists are going to be able to hijack a commercial airliner and fly it into a building. The pilot has a gun. The door to the cockpit is bullet proof and locked. The passengers would now figure they were dead and jump the hijackers.
Even the hijackers position would be different. They would know that their mission was a suicide effort. This was not the case on 9/11. Would they all have participated if they knew... not likely.
We need to better define safe?
It's not so much about barricades and lines and background checks. It's more about how we feel. Which I think is based on primarily what the parameters of normal are?
There are a lot of things to be scared about. Cars don't bother us. I think we could normalize terrorist acts pretty easily. I'd much rather, however, take to the offensive and work to minimize the number of potential terrorists.
Thanks for listening.
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