The reality becomes that your whole life changes. Coming into rooms like this, you start thinking whether there is safety here. If it's an imminent threat of assassination—as law enforcement and its highest level of national security, through the INSET division, is telling us—am I putting people in this room at risk by coming here? Can I go to my kids' schools? Can I go to their practices, their recitals and their games?
It may feel like these are minor things until they happen to you. Your whole life flips upside down with things like that and you don't want to be around people. The reality of the situation becomes that you want to protect people around you, especially those people you care about, and even those you don't know—probably even more, because they have nothing to do with this.
We're thrust into this situation. I think that in the immediate sense.... What we saw with Mr. Nijjar was that he changed his routines. He did everything he could. He did everything that you could possibly do to try to protect yourself in that situation.
The only thing he didn't do, which none of us will do, is go silent. I think if we don't go silent, they're going to keep coming. I don't believe there's anything—aside from a personal security detail that would be provided to individuals at a very extreme cost to our country—that would really keep people safe, from my two years of experience now.