“Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said Friday that the American public would ‘never leave the house’ if they knew what he knew about terrorist threats. … It’s everywhere. It’s constant. It’s nonstop,’ he said of the terror threat.”

These words are from a report about a statement by the Director of Homeland Security on Fox News [sic]. Now neither the venue nor the speaker make this particularly credible to me, but I was struck by how applicable this could be to gun violence in the U.S.A., where some people actually “never leave the house” because of shootings in their neighborhoods. And yes, gun violence is everywhere, constant, non-stop, yet the establishment and the American people would rather get worked up by hypothetical terrorism when we have actual terrorism raging all unchecked in our midst.