I'm siding with your friend on this one, lol. This may sound completely vain and paranoid, but I live in a state that might be seen as a desirable target for attention-grabbing terrorist acts. So whenever I hear of a potential terrorist attack, I go into panic mode. I fell asleep today obsessively watching the news, and was awoken by a rather loud airplane. Scared the snot out of me!

Of course, this paranoia only occurs when I'm in a certain state. Most of the time, I'm not concerned by terrorism and I don't live life in fear. But sometimes it can be quite triggering.