You know there was a similar sense of chaos and fright in NYC for weeks after 9/11, but for different reasons. Several of the buildings around ground zero were unstable and likely to come down, (eventually did), there was anthrax sent that killed several people, and then two months later, although it wasn't terrorism, a jet crashed into a Queens neighborhood and killed people in a neighborhood as well. That time period is responsible for my short attention span as I grew accustomed to checking or listening to the news all day to hear what was going on and what I need to watch for (lived in NYC then).

That being said, I am all for random bag checks in NYC subway. Something needs to be done as London's surveillance system is 10x more sophisticated than New York's.

I would say that it may be easier for the wrong kind of people to get into the UK via other EU countires but the july 7th terrorists were all londoners....