zero ability to assess danger
Ability to assess danger? If we do that
objectively, then we would allocate less resources to terrorism, and more resources to fighting the leading causes of death. Terrorism is not a leading cause of death and injury. If we're being rational which is what assessing danger is about, we'd work out the cost-benefit analysis of anti-terror measures. Spending millions to save 1 life is not a good trade-off, because you can spend those millions on
something else entirely that will save more lives. So you work out a
cost-effective amount of anti-terror spending. Sure some people will still die in occasional attacks, but you saved more lives somewhere else, by being rational and not emotional.
That's how you do this logically. But we're not even talking millions here, we're actually talking billions of Euros in terror defense spending against a threat that at most kills a handful of people.
Similarly, people who want legalized guns for self-defense are not rationally assessing danger: the UK has higher assault rates than the USA, but 1/5th the homicide rate. You'd expect the homicide rate to shoot up by a factor of 5 in UK if there was widespread gun availability. So, there would have to be a huge amount of terror attacks in the future in the UK, that
just happened to be prevented by legalized guns, to make that equation come out ahead. And inevitably, some cases will happen where they stopped a Muslim guy with guns but had to let him go because carrying guns was now legal, and when he uses those guns in an attack they'll just shrug and say "we did everything we could".