No, the point is that if someone brings a gun on a plane with an intent to harm, he or she would probably use it at the TSA checkpoint and not just let himself be frisked. The point is that someone submitting to having their dangerous looking possessions taken away from them kinda indicates that that person is NOT, in fact, a real threat.
If you really were intent on hijacking a plane, probably you would plan in advance to take on something that would not get screened out - say, a toothbrush that you would have whittled into a shiv and then placed a cap on so that it went through screening like any other toothbrush. Or, say, back in the day before all this bogus crap security theater, I don’t know, a box cutter?
If someone is really planning to take down a plane, they probably plan it out in advance to get through the screening and aren’t all like, “Oh, guns aren’t allowed on planes? I FORGOT.”
I do not for one second feel safer with all this hoo ha. Travel has become a total pain in the ass and not one bit safer than it was before 9/11 - and actually, it was pretty safe then. I’m sorry 9/11 happened and it’s good to assess what happened and try to prevent it from happening again, but screening is not a good answer.
