A Sad Day for us All

I remember clearly how I felt on the day the World Trade Centres were attacked.  Even though we lived in a small country town here in Australia, many thousands of kilometres from the tragedy, I felt scared for my young children, scared for the future, and had a surreal feeling that none of us would ever be able to feel safe again.  I remember Katy, who was 12, wondering why I was so upset and glued to the tv the next day, and me feeling a bit impatient with her but then feeling glad that she was too young to really grasp the enormity of what had happened, thus becoming upset and frightened too.
Of course the years passed and although we never forgot what had happened, life for most of the world got back to normal and we started to feel safe again.  Especially after Bin Laden was captured, although we all know that for every rat you see there are thousands that you don't.  And the rats have struck again and scurried away in the cowardly way they do, leaving innocent people dead and horribly wounded.  And to think that this time it's probably American citizens who have done this makes it worse. I don't mean your average American, I am talking about sleeper cells, people who have this ridiculously fanatical hatred for everything Western and prosperous.  Although they don't mind living in that great country and enjoying its many benefits.  What God, or higher power could condone the killing of innocents?  Of children.  The fucking Arabs in the Middle East don't even know why they're fighting anymore they've been doing it for so long, generations.  I am angry, very angry this afternoon, and feeling very helpless and deeply sad.
I notice on social media and just in general, people not appearing to be so affected by this latest attack, I hope this doesn't mean we're hardening to the awful effects of terrorism on our way of life and our freedom.  It's human nature I guess, I admit to not even paying a lot of attention when there is another mass shooting in the US.  It's not my place to comment on the laws of another country but something certainly has to change with their attitudes to guns.
I know we've just got to keep fighting the "good fight" but today I don't even know how we're going to do that effectively.