well, you know, i mean, we treat terrorism as a national security issue and in 2020 there were more than 19,000 gun deaths and only four deaths caused by terrorists and each of those deaths is a tragedy, but, i mean, let s we associate terrorism with something that really is a national security problem and yet somehow we don t put this in the bucket of being really a national security issue, and really a public health issue. i also think of the way terrorism is approached by law enforcement, right? i used to think that tsa was such a line of defense before i learned about how terrorism is combatted. i mean, tsa is like a last ditch effort, right n a way? if you are thinking of an airport situation and 9/11 kind of scenario, there s so much intel that has to be looked at ahead of time. when you are looking at, say, a mass shooting situation, intel on the suspect, understanding information about them, are you surprised that there just isn t a lot of that information that gets where
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i would go out and about without a guide dog, without a cane. feeling quite free. where are you travelling to today, madam? - we re travelling to edinburgh. i didn t really have many concerns about where i was going, or i didn t feel anxious at all. and what brought about my anxiety was feeling disabled by the world. i had a huge knock in confidence. i didn t want to leave the house, let alone leave the country. and i think that s why only now, seven years down the line, i am tackling plane journeys because i feel ok enough to want to go to other places. it s honestly, so mentally draining after going to a new place as a blind person when you ve never been there before. and i think that s why when i m in an airport situation, i have to just say, oh, could you please help me?