Fewer U.S. voters than ever say America safer than it was pre-9/11

Fewer U.S. voters than ever now say that the United States is safer than it was before 9/11 terrorist attacks after the recent Orlando nightclub massacre, according to a new poll.

A new Rasmussen Reports survey released early this week finds that only 26 percent of likely U.S. voters now believe that the United States is safer than it was before the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the lowest level of confidence in the Reports' tracking since November 2006.

In addition, six in ten likely voters say the country is not safer now, up by seven points compared with the last survey in November 2015.

The survey came at a time when the country was still reeling from the deadliest shooting massacre in U.S. history.

Forty-nine people were killed and 53 others wounded, including a police officer on June 12 in the shooting at the Orlando nightclub. It was the worst mass shooting in U.S. history and the deadliest terror attack since the 9/11 terror attacks in 2001. Enditem