It is not my intent to demean the feelings of people who suffered personal losses on September 11, 2001, but the rest of us have to attempt a modest return to sanity.
As I have noted before, we as a society have been driven to insanity by this, and it has convinced us to commence destroying ourselves. (Read the book Wasp by Eric Frank Russell)
The deaths on 911 are less than:
- 14 weeks of firearms homicides.
- 4 weeks of suicides.
- 1 month of motor vehicle deaths.
- 6 Weeks of infant mortality.
As to the last item, think about how many of this children we could have saved by spending just one tenth of the roughly $4 Trillion spend on this.
It’s normal to freak out after something like 911, but we are still freaking out 12 years later.
We need to chill out, and deal with the reality we have, not the reality we want to have.