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I disagree. Americans have demonstrated that they have bought the diversity and tolerance message. If 3,000 murdered Americans isn't enough to spark vigilantism, nothing shy of cutting kids' heads off at school and posting it on the internet is going to spark universal outrage in this country. The few who will lash out on their own will be quickly condemned and jailed. The muslims who are here to commit terror against us won't shrink from isolated cases of Americans striking back.

I disagree with your disagreement. Another large scale attack and...

Don't underestimate the anger jusssst under the surface seething that we hold against those that will kill us. Most are waiting for that spark that will set into motion something that our government will not be able to control. They can't lock tens of millions of Americans up. How will they stop millions of Americans from seeking retribution?

When it gets to the point where the government cares more for those who are trying to murder us than it does for it's innocent citizens...

Don't underestimate the anger jusssst under the surface seething that we hold against those that will kill us. Most are waiting for that spark that will set into motion something that our government will not be able to control. They can't lock tens of millions of Americans up. How will they stop millions of Americans from seeking retribution?

First, I'm one of the seething ones, like you. But Americans are deeply culturally adverse to murder. We have faith (too much) in our institutions to handle our revenge for us. We believe very deeply as a people that law and order trump our personal anger. Will all the things we have been through as a nation, there has never been a prolonged period of revolt other than the civil war, which was legitimized by law and order governments. Every other attack we have withstood by upholding our root belief in law and order. Parents of murdered children, husbands of murdered wives, rarely commit murder to find their own personal justice. They let the system do its work. You write "tens of millions" of Americans will be out murdering muslims--yet I'll bet you can't count five people you know personally who would be willing to murder in cold blood for any reason. The only way the majority, or even a significant minority, of Americans support killing is when it is sanctioned by the government in war. A big attack on us would see floods of men and women joining the armed forces, and perhaps vocal anti-muslim outrage. But we are a few generations from being murderers. Thank God.

Don't underestimate the anger jusssst under the surface seething that we hold against those that will kill us. Most are waiting for that spark that will set into motion something that our government will not be able to control. They can't lock tens of millions of Americans up. How will they stop millions of Americans from seeking retribution? When it gets to the point where the government cares more for those who are trying to murder us than it does for it's innocent citizens...

I can't tell you how many people I know have expressed the exact same thing.