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Are we safer now than we were immediately after 9/11, or have we just been lucky?

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Helium Election 2008, Capitol News Connections (CNC)

Results so far:

Safer		36%	223 votes	Total: 615 votes
Lucky		64%	392 votes	Total: 615 votes

Safer

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by Joe Klinkhoff Iii

I firmly believe we are safer. Past incidents of terrorism in the United States have been infrequent. These events, when they occur, are usually more devastating in the US tha...read more
2 of 41
by James Swartwout

Are we safer now than we were immediately after 9/11, or have we just been lucky? I'm sure that every thinking person out there would be able to figure that if it was so easy...read more
3 of 41
by Danette M. Scott

We are safer now than immediately after 9/11. When the twin towers were hit on 9/11 and it became obvious to many, that there was a terrorist attack taking place, unsuspe...read more
4 of 41
by Alida B

As a member of the intelligence community myself, I can say with confidence we are absolutely safer now, due in large part to tremendous strides made in inter-agency communicati...read more
5 of 41
by Richard Tin

Six years have gone by since that devastating 9/11 incident. Since then the awareness of that tragedy and the potential threats of terrorism has been heightened tremendously. Th...read more
6 of 41
by Michael Daly

While battling Islamo-Arab terrorism remains a fight in progress, the reality is the US is indeed safer than it was in September 2001. Some of it is indeed luck, but it is most...read more
7 of 41
by Ethel Smith

As usual it would be so easy to sit on the fence with this one. Yes, we have been lucky and yes, we are a little safer. Having to choose between the two I will opt for safer and...read more
8 of 41
by Dave Nocera

When I was a kid the monster lived under my parents' steps. The fears that gripped us as children came from our vivid imaginations. Then life's lessons taught us that monsters...read more
9 of 41
by Samantha Vee

We are safer now than we were immediately after September 11th, simply because we are more aware. Unfortunately, we live in a time and society now, where no one or no place is t...read more
10 of 41
by Matthew Mcguire

We are safer after 9/11. Many Americans may not see the difference in the United States or American lifestyles before and after September 11th, 2001, but if you look at...read more
11 of 41
by C.A. De Las Casas

We've been lucky, some say. I suppose one can say we've been lucky: we've been lucky that we've taken a number of steps and have not allowed the same blunders that allowed 9/11...read more
12 of 41
by Marilyn Mach

9/11, A wake up call. Awareness of the situation and threat allows us to be prepared for terrorism. Countries all around the world has step up their securities, rendered terrori...read more
13 of 41
by Justin Eland

Safer, yes. Invincible, far from it. We are better protected in part of the heightened security measures taken in our nations airports, seaports, governmental buildings, sta...read more
14 of 41
by Matei Monica

Point of View. The fruits of spirit are qualities that gives relevant tools in different situations or when the soul is suffering. With a good guide you can direct the life i...read more
15 of 41
by Scott Scott

I think that we are definitely safer than we were before the 9/11 tragedy. How could we not be, before 9/11 most American's went about their day with little thought to the dang...read more
16 of 41
by John Sarkis

Even though I feel we've just been "lucky," I'm going to be a Devil's advocate and write on the side of "safer." Less than two weeks shy of the seventh anniversary; we still ...read more
17 of 41
by Angela S. Young

I don't really know that we are or ever will be 'safer' than we were after 9/11, but we are definately more aware. Prior to the violations of September 11, we had our heads in t...read more
18 of 41
by Robert C. Sage

There should be no doubt that we have been lucky since 9/11. However, we may both be safer and less safe due to governmental action and inaction since then. Within the narrow ...read more
19 of 41
by David Brown

Before September 11, 2001 and right up to that horrible day, we found ourselves extremely vulnerable to terrorist attacks because we were extremely apathetic to the idea that we...read more
20 of 41

by Marcus Brooks

From 9/11 to December 2006, Al Qaida was responsible for about a dozen, major terror attacks or attempts of Western targets. In 2002, a popular nightclub in Bali, Indonesia exp...read more

Lucky

1 of 71
by Gen Hendrey

America is not safer today than it was immediately following the attacks of September 11th. While many Americans, as well as certain branches of America's government, may be mor...read more
2 of 71
by Chris Bowen

We are just lucky but it won't last. On 9/11 no one would ever have thought of flying a passenger plane into a building but after it happened and we stepped back and looked at...read more
3 of 71
by Steven Gadberry

Wake Up, America! If you believe we are safer now than we were immediately after September 11, 2001, you are deluding yourself. We have just been lucky, for the most part. We...read more
4 of 71
by A.K.

We are far from lucky and far from safe. But it's also not the terrorist we should be looking out for but our own government. Did nobody watch a documentary called zeitgeistmo...read more
5 of 71
by Lisa Quattro

When the shock of 9/11 hit us as a country we went immediately into war time security levels. We had a homeland security report every other hour. Our top political leaders, i.e....read more
6 of 71
by N Srinivasan Rao

Change in attitude is the key to unlock terrorism free world. Let us ask ourselves that why do we get the intention to kill or hurt some one, sometimes? The answer is clea...read more
7 of 71
by Chris Elsworthy

A good way to gauge our safety is to examine whether the causes of potential harm are increasing or decreasing. If you have a rise in 'cause' you will likely have a rise in 'eff...read more
8 of 71
by Barbara Peterson

Unfortunately, the United States is by no means safer now than we were six years ago. The reason is simple. Our government is a top-heavy beauracracy, filled with incompetent pe...read more
9 of 71
by Joseph Malek

There is no doubt in my mind that we have been extremely lucky not to have suffered additional attacks after the World Trade Center was destroyed and the Pentagon was damaged. Y...read more
10 of 71
by Shammah

Actually I say neither safe nor lucky, but blessed. If any man thinks that there is an evil that any man, by human might, can overcome then he is a fool. There are warfares on...read more
11 of 71
by Travis Casey

As a key figure in the IRA said at the height of the attacks in the UK, "The British security forces have to be lucky all the time. We only have to get lucky once". It is imposs...read more
12 of 71
by Patrick Lockyer

I don't think we are 'Lucky' really but I am sure we are not safer. Correction, being a Brit IS safer. Brits ARE safer than they have been for 30 years. I was a Brit Soldier in ...read more
13 of 71
by Peter Dalton

We are certainly no safer now than we were before the despicable act of nineteen misguided men. Quite to the contrary, through our response to this act we have inflamed and con...read more
14 of 71
by Virginia Lynn Emrick

Ever since that tragic September day when the United States was attacked on its own soil, polices and procedures touted to protect the country and its citizens have sprouted up ...read more
15 of 71
by Cherie Le Bozec

I think we are all living in a state of false complacency. These terrorists are as patient as they are cunning. I live in the south of England, where a huge number of terrorist ...read more
16 of 71
by Saul Shackleford

Since 9/11, security in the US has been stepped up higher than it has ever been in peacetime and to date there have been no further attacks on US soil. But does this mean Americ...read more
17 of 71
by Mr. Tommy

It has been 6 years since 9/11 happened. Many other events have happened, the London bombings, Bali bombings and most recently the kidnap of south korean missionaries on their m...read more
18 of 71
by Bryan Belrad

Given the evidence, clearly we are neither. Yet, since no more towers have collapsed, the logical mind must lean toward lucky. Are we Safer? As in the rhetoric politicians ...read more
19 of 71
by Arthur Daniels

The Terror Yet To Come? To pose the question "Are we safer today from terrorism today than we were immediately post 9/11/?," is much like comparing the proverbial apples...read more
20 of 71
by Randy Rolle

The reasons I believe we're just down right lucky - is because these people in the middle east are not short on anything. According to all the information being placed in the w...read more

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