Experts agree: The world cannot be made safe from terrorists

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So the state cannot protect the people from terrorists and criminals after all; therefore, "A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed".

PARIS (Tribune News Service) - The terrorism crisis still unfolding in Parison Saturday was the one security officials were prepared for. The suspectswere known to be suspicious. The primary target was known to be a primarytarget.
Police had assigned extra protection to the offices of the weekly satiricalnewspaper Charlie Hebdo, which in the past had often enraged Islamistorganizations with its cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. French policefollowed, photographed and listened in on the suspects, and at least some oftheir terrorist contacts were known well. The men reportedly were on theU.S. no-fly list.
And yet on Wednesday, they broke into the offices of Charlie Hebdo andkilled 10, including five well-known cartoonists and two police officersthere to protect them.
So the question being asked in Paris, around Europe and around the rest ofthe world, is 'how did it happen?' If known suspects can hit known andprotected targets, how can unknown targets be protected from unknownattackers?
The simple answer, anti-terrorism experts agree, is they can't be. The worldis not a safe place, and the reality of surveillance falls far short of theimage portrayed by Hollywood.
Mark Singleton, director of the International Center for Counter-Terrorismin The Hague, Netherlands, said that in the end, it comes down to numbers.An estimated 600 to 1,000 French citizens are "jihadi tourists" who havetraveled to Syria or Iraq to fight with the Islamic State or other terroristorganizations for a short time, before returning to their homes and lives inFrance.
In addition, there are homegrown and self-radicalized threats, and each yearan estimated 40 terrorists are released from French prisons and couldrequire monitoring.
"For every individual who should be monitored, approximately 20 staff areneeded," he wrote in an email response to questions.