How safe did you feel againts the Terrorists?

Question

When they put a ban on all liquids carried in Airplanes? How much safer did traveling become when they put a ban on them? They should just ban flying all together, it'll make us safer right, I'm amazed at how many people believe that by banning liquids on airplanes, we made them safer. I'm also amazed at how many people are willing to give up certain ways of life for a false sense of security. I guess some people can't tell the difference between tooth paste and chloride.

Answer 1

I feel about as safe as I felt during the cold war. I was 16 when the Soviet Union was attempting to install nuclear weapons on Cuba in Oct., 1962. Three years later I was in the U.S. Air Force stationed on a S.A.C. base. We had 8 B-52s fully loaded with nuclear weapons continuously on alert. We also had B-52s participating in operation chrome dome. Two years after that I was in Vietnam. During that time we also had the summer of 1967. I was in Detroit the morning before the riots started. Then there was the gas shortages of 73-74. Then there was Watergate and the resignation of a president. There was Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. There was El Salvador and Nicaragua and Panama and Bosnia and Somalia and the first World Trade Center bombing and on and on and on. Why should I feel any more or less in peril now than any other time in my life.

Answer 2

I don't feel any safer than I have since 9/11 and neither should anyone else. If the truth was being told everyone would be aware that our country has been overrun by terrorists-some of whom have been living here for many years. Our immigration laws are much to lax and our borders are not protected . These foreigners have been allowed to buy up much of our country's commercial enterprises, etc. They openly speak of their hatred and contempt for America, yet they are freely welcomed here each and every day.

Answer 3

So, you are saying if you have reason to believe nitro glycerin is going to be used to bring down an aircraft, no attempt should be made to thwart it?

I'll bet you'd be posting some similar question about if an aircraft was brought down by this method, you'd be asking "Why didn't they do something? He had info this would happen!"

I feel like I am more likely to be killed by about any other reasonable method and do not worry about terrorists.

Answer 4

I live in the boonies and rarely fly. The fact is even if you were in a plane on 9/11 you only had a 1 in 1500 chance of being on a hijacked plane. Don't buy the republican paranoia product...remember they told us the Russians were coming which we now know was untrue. You are perfectly safe unless you are fighting in Iraq.

Answer 5

They have now lifted that ban.

And, it was put in place after a terrorist plot was discovered with the terrorists carrying, you guessed it, liquids.

Answer 6

All of these measures are designed to make us feel safer. I don't think we are any safer now than we were on 9/10. Ben Franklin once said something like this; When we give up freedom for security we will end up having neither.

Answer 7

Ok, answer this.....how many Americans have been killed in terrorist bombings, attacks, in the last 5 years? Ok, now ask yourself, how many people have died, on American soil, in auto accidents?
So tell me this.....how come Americans aren't freaked out about the threat of automobile attacks?
People, get sensible and quit being scared of your own shadows. This administration preaches fear....a great president once said, "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself"....hear that and start living it.

Answer 8

There is no "The Terrorists".

That sounds like a music group.

Alot of people, nations and ethnic groups hate the Bush Regime.

Answer 9

I feel pretty damn safe. If your paranoid about life all the time...then no progress will be made. The terrorist wants us to fear....its what they thrive off of. To conquer them... we must conquer the fear we have towards them.

Answer 10

Not safe enough. We should ban aeroplanes altogether. And skyscrapers.