I’m more worried about getting randomly shot by a lunatic gun rights activist with a few screws loose or a son/daughter with mental illness but nevertheless has easy access to his parent’s gun versus a syrian refuge going postal. Just saying.
It was pretty amazing that in NYC/NJ it took less than 24 hours to find and capture that guy that decided to blow things up over the weekend. That suggests to me, we’re doing a pretty good job on things.
Could we do better? Yes…Can everything be prevented? Probably not. But given how much money this country has spent on some of these proactive monitoring/tools (much of which all of people in this country complain about how it’s invasive of privacy), I’d say it’s working reasonably well.
What was the complaint about the NSA again? Seems to me they are doing the job they are suppose to be doing.