U.S. A NATION OF SCAREDY-CATS?

First we wouldn't allow any prisoners of Guantanamo Bay into U.S. prisons (NIMP).  Somehow we felt that the prisoners there were some sort of superhuman beings that would escape from our most secure prisons and destroy the country.  Incredible.  And this in a country that tolerates over 10,000 murders by guns a year with vastly more deaths by suicide without a blink, a total that approximates the number killed by automobile accidents (over 30,000/yr), also tolerated.  But one death from a terrorist?  No way!  by the way, what country did Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols (remember the Oklahoma City Bombing* that killed at least 168 people?) come from again?  Was it Syria or Iraq or some other Muslim country?  I can't remember.  Oh, come on Americans they were home grown.

And remember Ebola last year when the country went into absolute hysteria they were going to get it and die.  Otherwise intelligent people said they didn't believe the authorities that it couldn't be transmit through the atmosphere.**  In the meantime  we in the U.S/ had flu season that does kill "only" 3,000 people in a "good" and upwards to 50,000 people in a bad year.

And our holding of these prisoners at Guantanamo Bay without charges, to say nothing about no trial, for more than a decade will be ultimately viewed by historian as a dark moment in U.S. history, rivaling the interment of all Japanese Americans in WW-II.

And now we have governors politicizing our acceptance of 10,000 vetted Middle East refugees because there may be a terrorist or two get through the vetting process and kill some American is another dark moment.  What have we become in the U.S., a nation of scaredy-cats?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing
** Ebola is not spread through the air, by water, or in general, by food. However, in Africa, Ebola may be spread as a result of handling bushmeat (wild animals hunted for food) and contact with infected bats. There is no evidence that mosquitoes or other insects can transmit Ebola virus. Only a few species of mammals (e.g., humans, bats, monkeys, and apes) have shown the ability to become infected with and spread Ebola virus. ( http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/transmission/index.html)