An armed population would stop terrorism and crime flat in it's tracks.
Amen bro.
I believe the best thing Homeland Security can do is to make it easy for the Sheriff's and Governors to have armed citizens establish a first line of watch and defense for local water systems, sub-stations and other local, non critical (from a national perspective) resources and potential targets and establish a comm net tieng them to the State Nat. guard and the Federal forces.
Just a thought.