Originally Posted by average_passenger

Can someone please explain to me why we can't use dogs to sniff for explosives at the airports? Aren't they used to detect missing people, drugs, suspects, and other things? Even if dogs and training cost a lot, doesn't it cost a ton of money to buy the new scanner machines and hire the people (above minimum wage) to run them? If I were in charge, I would just have everyone walk through the metal detector, get wanded if necessary (with no touching), and have an explosive dog walk around each passenger and around the terminals.
I'm pretty sure that this would be a less offensive to most people.