A few thousand out of 300 million. Three thousand is mere statistical noise, as much as it sucks to be one of those three thousand. Ironically, we ignore the tens of thousands that died that same day from other unfortunate causes that had nothing to do with terrorism.
You would condemn 300 million Americans to a life under heavy-handed oppressive government to save the lives of a few thousand unlucky people. That is an immoral and disgraceful position that reeks of cowardice. How do you get out of bed in the morning?
Fortunately for us, our Founding Fathers were willing to step up to the plate and risk many thousands of lives for the freedoms of a couple million. They would find your "if it saves one life" argument to be an appalling and disgusting calculus. Apparently inflation has taken a horrific toll on the value of our freedoms.
Your hysterics aside tortoise, and the fact that you find 3000 people killed by terrorists acceptable, we have lost no freedoms during this war. So your very premise is flawed. We lost more freedom from campaign finance reform than we did in the war on terror.