Do the British people really feel threatened?

This is directed at British people with regard to the "Terror Threat"! I simply can't understand the reaction of the British people to this "threat when they lived with the reality of IRA terrorism for 30 years. During these 30 years about 50 times as many attacks took place as were committed by Muslim terrorists. Yet never did the government see fit to bring in ID cards or other curbs on freedom. I think the government are duping the British people when they should know better. The govt currently says there are 30 active threats which are being monitored. My God whne the IRA were still in existence there was more than a threat. Bombs were going off all over London and throughout the rest of England and yet the British people withstood that without losing any part of their freedom. I lived through the "war" in N.I. in its heartland in belfast and this new "Terror Threat." is simply piss in the ocean compared to N.I. where the threat was reality!