A few thousand out of 300 million. Three thousand is mere statistical noise, as much as it sucks to be one of those three thousand. Ironically, we ignore the tens of thousands that died that same day from other unfortunate causes that had nothing to do with terrorism.
You would condemn 300 million Americans to a life under heavy-handed oppressive government to save the lives of a few thousand unlucky people. That is an immoral and disgraceful position that reeks of cowardice. How do you get out of bed in the morning?
Fortunately for us, our Founding Fathers were willing to step up to the plate and risk many thousands of lives for the freedoms of a couple million. They would find your "if it saves one life" argument to be an appalling and disgusting calculus. Apparently inflation has taken a horrific toll on the value of our freedoms.
If it happens, that's the way they will do it if we have enough cowardly leaders to accommodate them. But not if we keep our freedoms and the right to say no to their "cultural shifts", and the right to criticize them without being charged with a hate crime, unlike the Europeans. And if we restrict the right of government to impose this new culture on us and to monitor us if we go against the political winds then we will be able to withstand them.
While we are at it, let's not put out free snacks to these rats in the form of welfare benefits and earned income tax credits.