Originally Posted by
ronin308
In other news, billions are spent on safety features of aircraft, yet not used.
Seriously, it's like saying door locks have no value because no one has broken into your home.
To an extent, but door locks serve a purpose. Lots of that anti-terrorism money ends up wasted on boondoggle projects that are doomed to failure (anyone remember the "virtual fence"?), the TSA--which, sorry, does as much to prevent terrorism as a red herring does to solve crimes, or it just disappears into a budgetary black hole.
I think the more appropriate metaphor in this situation would be to say that one has worn a bulletproof vest every day for the past ten years, and has never once been shot. Does that mean the vest has prevented anything, or does it maybe just mean that the few who've tried have had really, really bad aim?