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34. same here. I am more likely to die in traffic or

Reply to msongs (Reply #2)

Tue Jun 11, 2013, 04:38 PM

Jun 2013

have a tree fall on my house. Those are my real fears.

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Are you as fearful of terrorism today as you were on Sept 11th, 2001? [View all] kentuck Jun 2013 OP

I am about as fearful I guess el_bryanto Jun 2013 #1

about the same, which is not at all. more likely to shot by a 2nd amendment supporter n t msongs Jun 2013 #2

same here. I am more likely to die in traffic or Phentex Jun 2013 #34

Same here. Was not fearful then and am not now. Mojorabbit Jun 2013 #37

I was sad on 9/11 think Jun 2013 #3

I was not fearful on 9/11. I was angry, confused, and heartsick, but not afraid. Melinda Jun 2013 #4

i felt a lot of sadness then and for some time afterwards, but was never scared JI7 Jun 2013 #22

I was living in Atlanta at that time... the quiet of the City was deafening. Melinda Jun 2013 #26

I've never been fearful of foreign-based terrorism. I'm more afraid of my sinkingfeeling Jun 2013 #5

No. octoberlib Jun 2013 #6

Sadly, yes eissa Jun 2013 #7

Does your fear come from actual terrorist attacks...? kentuck Jun 2013 #9

As irrational as it may sound eissa Jun 2013 #14

I am more afraid of the gun nuts and those who want to overthrow the US government and the corporati kelliekat44 Jun 2013 #8

I was never afraid of terrorism. I watched the towers burn upaloopa Jun 2013 #10

Few people thought the towers would collapse. kentuck Jun 2013 #13

"I do not see 9-11 as the awful thing other people see it as." geek tragedy Jun 2013 #24

I mean that we never should have or needed to have a war on terror. upaloopa Jun 2013 #27

Equally. Laelth Jun 2013 #11

Not then. Not now. Our governments reaction to it is far more scary. Tierra_y_Libertad Jun 2013 #12

Wasn't afraid then, am not afraid now. I am though disgusted at what fear allowed to transpire NRaleighLiberal Jun 2013 #15

I was not fearful then. I am not fearful now. LWolf Jun 2013 #16

I was never fearful. nt G_j Jun 2013 #17

I wasn't afraid that day. I'm not now. Solly Mack Jun 2013 #18

On 9/11/01 I was inhaling other human beings that had been geek tragedy Jun 2013 #19

Although I wasn't afraid on 9/11 ( I live in NC) octoberlib Jun 2013 #39

Yeah, not knowing whether she was buried under rubble kind of sucked. geek tragedy Jun 2013 #40

i was not fearful then or now JI7 Jun 2013 #20

Same here. randome Jun 2013 #45

More. Thanks to gun nuttery proliferation and the NRAGOP. nt onehandle Jun 2013 #21

still at the bottom of any of my fears of things that could hurt me. KG Jun 2013 #23

I wasn't fearful back then. I was fearful of the clown circus Cleita Jun 2013 #25

Hear, hear! Laelth Jun 2013 #28

To take your last point one step further, would we trust any geek tragedy Jun 2013 #29

Precisely. Laelth Jun 2013 #32

Wow! That's an interesting hypothesis and Cleita Jun 2013 #31

You are very welcome. n/t Laelth Jun 2013 #33

Exactly the same amount. Which is to say, ZERO. n/t Duer 157099 Jun 2013 #30

I guess so. I wasn't afraid then either. n/t Egalitarian Thug Jun 2013 #35

Not in the slightest. a la izquierda Jun 2013 #36

No, the chances are almost nothing. 9/11 will never happen again unless someone gets a nuke. n-t Logical Jun 2013 #38

hmmm, fearful... I want not fearful either then or now but... Ohio Joe Jun 2013 #41

I was never afraid. BlueStater Jun 2013 #42

I think there is more chance of AsahinaKimi Jun 2013 #43

Haven't changed HarveyDarkey Jun 2013 #44

What made me most fearful that day SteveG Jun 2013 #46