I suppose the fundamental question is do you feel safer?
Since I stipulate to all your details, I chopped them. I don't think that is the fundamental question. In fact I am pretty sure there is nothing in the Docs about how we are to feel. That is the 9th. Feel up your sister if you can get away with it.
We can Chase a feeing, but there is no guarantee. Only the Right to Life and Liberty to have the Chase is upheld with no warranty.
So, is this a system to make us feel safer? No it is not. Some can never feel safe, and then there is Old Lather, you know.
Doesn't know safety from shit, but still a Citizen in the force protection agreement between the States.
In fact there is no contract with an individual in the Constitution. It provides for the common defense and assigns a system of decision making, 3 really, in a strange unstable balance.
This was never for living people. That was only if they won. It was the butcher bill if they lost, their names for the noose. A lot of what is happening here means we need information. For WE are in the process, in that, we pick the decision makers. But, those Citizens make the decisions, not WE.
But, a lot of what happens is very confusing without deep special knowledge that takes a 1/2 a lifetime to understand. And even then 99.99% of what goes on in this world can be known and understood by only a very few. They know it
and have the background to see if it is a dot that needs connecting.
"Why is that kid digging up that tree they just planted 2 days ago?"
That could be the beginning of Armageddon, very unlikely. But, 3 people won't know. The Kid, the Dad and the Neighbor.
Perhaps the tree doesn't care. But, that is a butterfly sneeze. We all know what that means in chaos theory. Digging that tree could actually mean anything. That is the problem.
So, I am quite sure we are not supposed to feel safe. But, we are safe and we spend big treasure to stay safe.
That would be zombie death for Americans to feel safe. WE put our guard down and that is just what the Anti-Cons want. So, let's not support them, Mr E.
WE never feel safe in self rule. We aren't safe from each other and that's a fact.