After the incident of 9/11 terrorist attack in New York City, our country has taken serious actions toward our safety to ensure people feel safe to be in the United States. Acknowledging our nations needs more safety and security. As a result, George W. Bush, the president during the time, strengthened our security by adding the Patriot Act and National Security Agency to protect the people and the nation from other attacks to come. Therefore people started to argue to our leaders how the government is going over the constitution to make security priority than individual rights. Our nation needs more safety and security than our individual rights because security will save lives from facing danger, and it is a government …show more content…
This does not intrude on or interfere with people's everyday lives. This program does not exist for the government to meddle in people’s personal lives but to preserve security, peace, and safety by the government for all citizens. We had many terrorist attacks within our nation like the New York marathon when an American citizen planted a bomb near the end of the race which ended up killing many innocent people. In the San Bernardino terrorist attack, an Arab couple went out of a car on a street to shoot people who were innocent with many kinds of weapons. Another incident was at a nightclub in Orlando when a terrorist member took away many lives with ridiculous weapons. These incidents show that our country needs to reach out to many people's privacy who are killing innocent lives. When this is happening repeatedly we need to let security be the priority because lives are being taken away by criminals. Which means you shouldn't have a problem to save others’ lives if you weren't a criminal or hiding something that is against the law. People who are not willing to sacrifice a little of their individual rights are selfish because this would mean the government would not be able to find terrorists that want to harm other people’s lives. Then our government would have all the ability to protect citizen’s lives through all their ability as it is their