The question isn’t whether people will try to hijack the planes but whether TSA is really an effective way to stop it. How much are we spending and how much freedom are we giving up? For every concealed weapon they find, how many are they missing? I think there are better ways to make the flights secure, and more effective ways, than what we are doing.
Arriving an half and a half before a flight turns what was once a convenient way of travel into a very slow way to get places. We should be looking to how Israel and other countries are performing their security and adjusting that to our own airports, not frisking every passenger in the hope of finding a weapon. The last time I traveled they had to scan this ancient woman in a wheelchair who clearly was not a threat. They treated her with respect, but, wow, we were all waiting for her to dodder across the line and get wandeed. I feel safer. Do you? Not really?
How come, since they had this mass theater shooting a year ago, we don’t have to get xrayed every time we want to take in a show?
LOTS of people carry guns on planes, by the way. You would be shocked to know how many people are legally carrying on a flight. Sure, they are permitted to carry, but all it takes is one of those people to decide that they have HAD it to make that flight go bad.
