>Like I said to another commenter, actual prevention and the appearance of prevention are different problems. That's not the government's job, though. It is no

>Like I said to another commenter, actual prevention and the appearance of prevention are different problems. That's not the government's job, though. It is not the role of the government to make people feel safe. It is not, in fact, the role of government to make people feel anything in particular, be it safe, happy, calm, or sexually aroused. It can be argued that the government should -actually- keep people safe, but it is very hard to defend the position that we need to have the Feeling Police, which is a few neural folds away from being the Thought Police. edit: If you'd like to ask "then, who should make people feel safe?", my answer is "psychotherapists".