Quote:If your son or daughter were killed in a car crash, how much (on a per person basis) would you be willing to pay, in retrospect, to reduce the odds of such a crash happening?


We can apply the same question to a whole lot of things that are much more likely to occur than a domestic terrorist attack. And we do ask that question, every day of our lives. We make choices based on risk. We don't ban guns, we don't ban cars, we let convicted felons out of prisons, we eat red meat, we fly on airplanes, we swim in the ocean, we do a whole bunch of things that are much more likely to kill us than a domestic terror attack. Because we apply some cost-benefit standard to these questions.


We don't dig a hole and crawl into it or put our son or daughter into it to protect them. Self-protection does not trump living our lives in freedom. We make that choice every single day. Sure, we can apply more perfect protection to ourselves, but at what cost?