Ignoring it? So you want to present this false dichotomy eh? Is that really all you have to fall back on? No one said ignore it. People are saying "don't over react to it". If you start going after our freedoms, you're over reacting. Take a step back and a deep breath. There is plenty we can do to watch and prepare and to be ready from these threats, no one says we can't do anything. But at the same accord, we need to understand that terrorists will exist so long as there are pissed off people with no power in the world. And that's most likely going to be true so long as there are advanced human cultures on this planet. So terrorists happen. We've suffered their attacks before. We will suffer their attacks again too. Given enough time, it will happen. Sorry, but it's never going to be zero. And if we strive for it to be zero, we'll be left as slaves.
You see, freedom is inherently dangerous. When you aggregate it over a large enough population, you get abuses and crime and other undesirable effects. But this is a consequence of freedom. In a free state we will never be 100% safe, we take the risk as necessary and worth the cost of our freedom. When people start acting against that freedom, that's when we have true problems. Terrorists? No, they can't change our laws. They can't take our freedom. They have no chance in hell of ever beating us. The best they can do is ram a plane into a building. That's their ace in the hole. They did it, they got lucky and it worked beyond their wildest dream. That ace is done burnt up now though. And the most successful terrorist attack on our State soil proper didn't even kill more people than cars do in a year. And that was what, 10 years ago? Terrorists ain't got ****. If they were smart they would have synchronously blown up the TSA lines in the biggest US airports by now. But they ain't even smart enough to think that one up.
So in the end, the true threat ain't the terrorists. Live free or die I say. Better to die on your feet than live on your knees. If they kill a small number of us, they kill a small number of us. Die free. But they ain't ever going to change us. They don't have the power. The real threat is the threat that actually works against our rights and against our liberty. The thing that has control over that, the thing that can effect that; and that's the government itself. And now we see the dangers of the Chicken Littles crying that the sky is falling. You're helping the true threat. Supporting that which can actually take our freedom, circumvent our rights, and empowering it to do so.
Live free or die, death is not the greatest of sins.