Originally Posted by
gsoltso
The fact that shoes are screened so closely here makes it next to impossible to use them on US flights. With the increased awareness it makes it less likely even at airports that don't use the same screening we do. That does not mean that there is no threat from it, seriously it takes 15 minutes to make a shoe bomb, it takes about 30 mins to make a pair of shoe bombs.
You do not know what anyone is thinking unless they tell you (and even then it is a crap shoot), so to say that no one is trying to harm aviation by using shoe bombs is like rolling dice.
And yet, no planes were brought down by shoe bombs when the shoe carnival was not mandatory prior to August 2006.
And no planes are being brought down by shoe bombs in all of the other countries that have no shoe carnival.
These are facts that, I note, you are not even attempting to dispute -- just hoping they'll go away if you refuse to acknowledge them. And they are facts that show that no one is trying to use shoes to harm aviation.
And they are facts that conclusively demonstrate that the risk from shoes is so infinitesimal as to be effectively nonexistent. TSA's shoe screening is a colossal waste of time and effort, it does nothing to make anyone safer from anything, and it is a key reason why America hates TSA.