the reincarnation of suzy wrote:Brandon9000 wrote:the reincarnation of suzy wrote:"Better safe than sorry" is paranoia! Aren't people searched on the way in? Everyone is forced to throw their trash on the floor. Stupid.
Well, assuming that no one tries to attack the convention, then it's stupid. But if some group actually does plan to do so, then it is possible that they might be resourceful and could defeat spotty security. People who are willing to die in order to kill are very dangerous.
Well if that's the way we have to think, I guess it's safe to say
we are less safe than ever before.
That's short term thinking. The president's policies are designed to make us safer in the long run, not necessarily at every individual moment after we begin to act. When you first begin to fight a strong, numerous enemy who must be opposed, it is entirely possible that you are initially less safe, but that doesn't mean that you don't need to oppose that enemy. For example, if some country had been dominated by drug cartels for decades and a new government came in and began acting vigorously to arrest the drug peddlers, it is entirely possible that it would initially spark great retaliation from the ciminals, but it would still be the right thing to do.
