Mastering traffic control

In his comment piece on Mastering the Internet through surveillance of  emails, etc. Henry Porter laments “the complacency [of] centre ground commentators … who seem happy with losing a little liberty to make the world safer. None … compared their government’s response to the loss of life from terror with its response to the vastly greater and no less ugly loss of life from gun crime”; or, I would add, its ZERO response to the vastly greater (again) loss of life from an unequal traffic control system.