<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by sbrower:
JRF: Security is *significantly* better because:
1) it is now against the rules to bring those items. (On 9/11, at 8am, if you had walked up to the uniformed police officer and said "can I bring this box cutter on board?" the answer would have been "yes".)
2) it is irrelevant, to the real question, whether 1 or 2 or 100 people have brought in a weapon (every reported instance was an error) in the last 80 days. No one will plan a 9/11 event, involving 4 aircraft, based on the fact that they have a 1 in 10,000 chance of getting a weapon through security (even if it is a 1 in 100 chance).</font>
http://europe.cnn.com/2001/US/12/29/....ap/index.html
Burnstein flew from Tampa to Atlanta before switching flights and continuing to Memphis International Airport.
Burnstein was preparing to board a flight back to Atlanta on Friday afternoon when he was selected for a random search, said Larry Cox, Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority president. That search turned up a loaded 9mm Beretta semi-automatic pistol in Burnstein's carry-on luggage,