Originally Posted by
chollie
If someone had nefarious intent, it would be much easier to tinker with a pair of skates to make it easy to remove the blades than it would be to turn a very small knife blade into a serious weapon.
I'm not suggesting skates should be banned, only that IMHO, they're easily capable of causing much more damage than the small knives that the FAs were worried about.
No one is going to take command of a plane with either one, but there is more potential for damage from the skate blades.
I don't see how arguing that skate blades are more capable of causing damage than small knives is a good way to discourage TSA from banning skates.
To my mind, it is irrelevant whether one is marginally more dangerous than the other (I could certainly craft an argument for the reverse) because neither of them are a real threat to aircraft security.