Obviously, you have the homegrown terrorist. I dont know how to stop that or detect that. You have other terrorist threats that come across the border. I believe in the case of the paris shooting, i believe he was homegrown, but, again, there are so many threats that come in from across border, and its essential, absolutely, to control ones border. The other thing that has me, keeps me literally awake at night is the threat against aviation. We know that would be the super bowl for the terrorists to knock down an airplane in flight, technicall particularly if it was full of americans. We have taken measures overseas to reduce that threat. But its something i watch every day, because there are a number of plots we are watching very, very closely, and theyre very sophisticated and very threatening. The number one thing in my mind is to protect the american people. So well do that. You said on the homegrown threat, a lot of people think ppart of the San Bernardino as shooting and theto to
Frustration and people that are struggling and communities that are struggling violence. I dont have a good answer. It takes some dialogue. Do you want to weigh in . I have thought a little bit about that before in one beginning of an idea i came up with is things need to be tackled in preschool because in preschool, preschool is a time where kids have the fewest ideas coming into conceptions about the world. Its the ideal time to try and encourage empathy through the structure of preschool and my hope would be as soon as we go through preschool and become more empathetic individuals in that time of very Rapid Development they are going to go into Elementary School and eventually high school with a much more empathetic background and that will leave them much more in tuned to the issues that you brought up which is i think the first step. There are simply people recognizing their presence in being willing to talk about them. Anybody else want to weigh in before i answer back . It seems
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