&gt; In the wake of a terrorist attack, the public demands that laws be changed to make them safer.<p>Ah, but therein lies a little problem: we probably can&#x27;t be made safer and eventually this will become obvious to the general population as well. Terrorists have it super easy in soft bellied countries like the west. 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.