Originally Posted by gofast
Do you really believe that, I mean really? You must be one high speed dude. Yes, we need more explosives detection equipment(chemical sniffers) at the checkpoints, but they are like a million bucks a pop.
At the rate the TSA has been wasting money on unnecessary personnel, The Shoe Carnival, The Great Sharp and Pointy Object Search, and ID Harassment, that sum is a drop in the bucket. Chemical sniffers should have been a priority, not an afterthought. And the technology has existed long before 9/11.
Originally Posted by gofast
The fact of the matter is that when (not if) there is another terrorist hijacking, there are going to be lots of well-trained bad guys with nothing to lose, and they are going to be armed with deadly weapons provided courtesy of unscreened airport employees and ramp rats. And guess what?!! The FC passengers are going to die first and get stacked in the aisles like cord wood!!
Sure they are. I'll take my chances on this pipe-dream scenario happening just like I buy all kinds of asteroid insurance.
Originally Posted by gofast
I don't really care if I change your mind about the relative merits of the FAM program, but I thought you might appreciate an accurate picture of the ensuing scenario.
Try a bomb smuggled on board in a terrorist's or terrorists' butt because the TSA has a shoe fetish and the losers at DHS keep dumping money into the joke of an air marshal program instead of both DHS/TSA getting chemical sniffers to the checkpoints. And that's the real reality, like it or not.