<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by NJDavid:
I recently flew EWR-LAS-SNA over multiple days....The next time an unscreend gun is pulled on a plane, or a non-x-rayed piece of checked baggage blows-up, and one or hundreds die, may be the time you realize that we should have federalized the system, and standardized each check-point in the system. I hope that day never comes, but it's foolish to believe that it is so remote a possibility that we need not bother to do anything.
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We are way overreacting, as we always do when it comes to airplanes. Thousands die from so many other preventable causes everyday, but we do little about it. Shootings, robberies, car accidents, rapes, etc,etc. This is life as we know it. Yet, when 100-200 die in a plane crash, accident or bomb, we go crazy. Thousands did at the hands of others everyday, but 100 in a plane crash is so different??
Thinking and trying to screen every single person everyday getting on a plane is reactionary and emotional.
Sept 11 will not happen again, even with our current screening, or what we had then. Sept 11 succeeded because we let them. It has nothing to do with the screening process.
And if you think spending 10's of BILLIONS of dollars on bomb sniffing machines will help, you are fooling yourself too.
Everyone assumes these measures from IDs, to eye scans to national IDs to xrays to body searches are the 100% answer. Get real.