Security and safety aren't the same thing. Security is a function of the weaponized state that is using guns, weapons, fear, and other things to "make us secure, right? Horrible things are supposed to be kept at bay by these tools, even though we know that horrible things continue to happen all the time —and that these very tools and the corresponding institutions are reproducing the violence and horror they are supposed to contain.

— We Do This 'Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba, Tamara K. Nopper, Naomi Murakawa (Page 95)