Do you feel more, less, or relatively unchanged regarding your safety since 911?

Question

Please explain your answer.

Answer 1

Unchanged. I can walk across the street and get hit by a bus, I could have some deranged lunatic come into my house and kill me. I don’t worry about these things why would I worry about terrorists or supposed terrorist actions. It was a tragic thing that happened on 9-11 but there have been more tragic things that have happened in this country and we have done worse to other countries ourselves. I feel like the most of the security measures that have been put in place have actually taken some freedom away from us and if being “safe” means my rights as a citizen of the United States citizen will be compromised I say we have lost the War on Terrorism. Paranoia is our worst enemy!

Answer 2

I feel less safe and I think part of it is based on my own fears. I used to work for an airline, I don't now and I'm too afraid to fly. I cannot take the subway or ride a bus, because I'm afraid someone will blow it up and I will be trapped. The screeners at the airport are still incompetent. Since we have a free society, there is no restriction of movement - which scares the hell out of me, because anyone can pull up in front of any building with a bomb and nobody would ever know or be able to do anything about it. Bush is doing nothing about our borders; he wants to give amnesty to all the illegals. I personally think we should halt immigration. How can you fix a problem when you got the constant flow of it coming in on one side and you don't have the time to fix the other, illegal side? They say their hiring agents all the time, yet - I applied over a year ago with the FBI and still haven't heard anything, even though I have a degree in Criminal Justice and good grades. I'm afraid I live to close to Washington DC that when a nuke comes, I will be fried alive. I'm paranoid - eh?

Answer 3

Since 911, I would say that I am changed. The blissful ignorance of the delicate world in which we live is not like that of 10yrs ago. 911 was a wake up call to many not only in America but throughout the world as a whole to the threat of terrorism. The issues facing the world today is not only of the america but the world as a whole. Each nation power hungry for domination and control of the worlds' wealth.

911 was just a birthing pain of what is transpiring in our global warming of discord and warring against one another. From Russia, North Korea, Iraq and Iran all have their own agenda's ... but there is one main collective enemy...>>>The adversary has been since the beginning of time. To steal, kill and destroy all that God loves.

Answer 4

I actually feel different in that I never thought about public safety when traveling before, but now, even when I go to work, if I see an unattended package, or see someone doing something that is not "normal", I get a little nervous for a minute. I never did that before 911.

Answer 5

I'm not sure if it has to do with 911 or society over all. I feel a lot less secure than I did a few years ago. I've started learning Kung Fu, and in the process of getting a gun and a concealed weapons permit.
I've become quite a good with the pistol. It scares the heck out of my wife when I go to the range to practice.

Answer 6

Nothing has changed as far as me feeling more or less safe. I have never trusted the government and the whole sad situation just reinforced on why I do not trust the government.

Sad to say but if our government had the oportunity to rule the world or make everyone safe, (sniff sniff) our government would probly choose rule the world. On top of that they would lie to citizens and say, "once we rule the world then everyone would be safe"

Im sorry for all the lifes 911 took, and I feel for our troops and their families that are fighting and/or fought. I do not like war, death or sadness. thankful but sad, I wish no one had to die for freedom or safety or oil or anything.

Answer 7

I feel a bit more safety conscious. I tend to really look at people differently and I don't trust anyone I don;t know. I used to much more open and carefree. Hadn;t a worry in the world, now I feel like I am just waiting for all the wars over there coming over here.

Answer 8

the only change i feel is that now i'm AWARE of just how incompetent the government is. they're completely focused on what they want, as opposed to what's best for the people.

real estate is down, the stock market is down, unemployment is higher than it was before GW, taxes are benefitting the wealthy and crippling the middle class, gas prices are up, the military is stretched thin, american vets arent being taken care of properly, men in the highest positions of government have been proven to have abused their power, and the president doesnt punish them.

this whole cabinet should be tossed in prison. none of us are any safer, and the government has intruded on our personal freedoms. if anything, i feel LESS SAFE because of the government.

Answer 9

Since 9/1//01 I feel less safe as an American.

The reason I feel LESS safe is because the American government has betrayed the people and ideals of America and stolen the freedom's of the people in their so called effort to "protect freedom and democracy".

The government now has legislated broad powers to itself that allow it to do whatever it wants, for any reason imaginable or no reason, to anyone, without the barest attempt to explain its actions. That is not a free democracy...that is a Fascist dictator state.

Answer 10

LESS safe...NOT from danger by terrorists but by agents of the government. The few rights to privacy that were left after being decimated by the War on Drugs are now being finished off by the War on Terror.

The US is moving ever-closer to being a fully militarized Police State.

God SAVE America!