Maybe we help the perspective with this scenario.
It is significantly more likely you will be killed or maimed on the roadways, highways and MMP (

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Yet every day and multiple times per day we all take on that risk automatically without much thought about not coming back. And while there are rules and laws that help govern vehicle traffic the roadway slaughter continues day after day. With no calling out of additional measures to protect us from such an event.
Long and short of it? If they are not fortifying Times Square and the visitor traffic is no less than it ever was......then we are all as snug as a bug in a rug here in TV.
PERSPECTIVE!!!!