Originally Posted by Spiff
"45,000 federal screeners who had, through May, intercepted 3.9 million knives..."
I couldn't care less. Knives are not a credible weapon to hijack an airplane. They might as well have been confiscating candy bars for all the security this theft has added.
Disagree. Knives worked spectacularly well on 9/11. And they will work well again unless the 1)passengers, 2) FAMS and/or 3) the crew were willing to surrender their meat to the metal to stop them.
"...and 1,905 guns at airport checkpoints."
Great job. How many terrorists were stopped?
This is the problem with deterence - you may never know what you stopped. Sometimes you will, but mostly you will not. And you'll never get the press coverage that a horrific incident would have.