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Old Apr 28, 2014 | 2:36 pm
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jkhuggins
 
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Originally Posted by ronin308
It actually did. If the FAA reacted to possible and even non-probably threats as fast as TSA did, the box cutters would have been banned as they were already talking about doing that.

Of course poor screening was just 1 of many things that allowed 9/11 to happen.
Nope. Today, I can easily manage to bring aboard an aircraft weapons with the same or greater effectiveness as the box cutters that are now "banned" from carry-on luggage. Nothing in the intervening 12+ years has changed that.
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