Very much agreed. As I say in the op-ed:
Recent research shows that after any emotionally powerful event, in politics or private life, our brains tend to assign too much weight to that event, compared with what is really important to us. This thinking error is called attentional bias. To fight this thinking error, we should consider what are our actual long-term goals and how to achieve them in the best possible manner.
Here's my op-ed that uses long-term orientation, probabilistic thinking, numeracy, consider the alternative, reaching our actual goals, avoiding intuitive emotional reactions and attention bias, and other rationality techniques to suggest more rational responses to the Paris attacks and the ISIS threat. It's published in the Sunday edition of The Plain Dealer, a major newspaper (16th in the US). This is part of my broader project, Intentional Insights, of conveying rational thinking, including about politics, to a broad audience to raise the sanity waterline.