We've spent nearly a TRILLION dollars on Homeland Security since 9/11 [View all]

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why do we act like we live in a pre-9/11 nation?

I'm not saying that there could never be a terrorist attack now. But surely with all that money and all the abrogations of rights and intrusive procedures and monitoring, the risk of a massive attack such as 9/11 has been sharply reduced, right?

We have thousands of shooting in this country every year and since 2007 we have over a dozen mass shootings every year and yet we freak the fuck out about foreign terrorists.

Not that I've heard so much as a peep out of any government official reassuring us that Homeland Security protects us.

Maybe it doesn't, but in that case, we've spent a whole lot of treasure on nothing. And if it does, why no comment on that? Instead, we hear from government officials and elected politicians about the terrible threat from foreign terrorists.