Some people, apparently including you based on your comments, simply REFUSE to "take a dose of reality." This mindset genuinely defies logic and common sense. Maybe you can explain where it comes from? Is it religious, political, philosophical or what?

Ben Franklin once said the following and it applies to people like you who "refuse' to learn or accept the obvious based on the experience of others. ""Experience is a teacher whom the wise will consult as rarely as possible" meaning that learning things the hard way is not the smart way. Do you need to "experience" the whiff of cordite smoke, or the heat of a blast to understand we are at potential danger down the road.??

I think some (maybe you, not sure) are simply, and understandably, afraid of the threats we face. They are indeed sobering. Thus, the least scary way to deal with it is to deny they exist.