I think what it points out is that NO government can make us 100% safe.....EVER. The money that it would take to try would be unimaginable. More than I'm willing to give up in taxes, I know that. I hope Brian is right that this serves as a wake-up call but not that government needs to do more... rather that we have to not look to government to do EVERYTHING from cradle to grave. There are some things government (local, state, feds) must do but a hell of a lot of things it can't do very well. And that is Democrat, Republican, Left, Right, whatever..... Governments like ours is not a fast response entity. Nor is it very good at forecasting storms apparently.