We&#x27;re definitely on the same page.<p><i>[W]e probably can&#x27;t be made safer and eventually this will become obvious to the general population as well...</i><p>Exactly. How can you stop a few individuals from shooting up public spaces, especially in the United States? For that matter, how would you stop a pair of family members from carrying out attacks with homemade bombs?<p><i>We have but two choices: change our societies drastically for the worse or accept the fact that complete safety and societies such as the ones that we live in are mutually incompatible.</i><p>Agreed.<p>If we win this conflict, but sacrifice who we are in the process, then we are no better than those whom we fight.