This is why I want to stay out of the US and live in Mexico (or elsewhere) - and why I dread returning to the US every year. As Tequila alluded to earlier in this thread, I'm not anxious and tense while in Mexico and have no fear of armed and dangerous mentally deranged people shooting me or anyone. Not necessarily so in the US.
"Since 9/11, the US has increasingly become Yellowland, a place where we assume danger is imminent. It's damaging to us individually and as a society. A lack of safety makes people anxious and tense, and the long term effects are debilitating. .... we believe we're living in an unsafe situation even if we're not."http://fusion.net/story/200747/living-in-code-yellow/