> What does it take for you guys to agree that someone shouldn't get on a plane, a backpack full of c4!?
Are you seriously satirizing the idea that the line should be drawn at items that are actually dangerous?
Are you seriously satirizing the idea that the line should be drawn at items that are actually dangerous?
Mainly, because a terrorist would not walk by the TSA with a gun, bomb, knife, or whatever now. Unless they were just an idiot. Most terrorism is organized. So they would have a plan. They send people in advance to take pictures of the airport and find other entrances. There are ways into the secure areas of airports if you look.
That's why at an airport every employee has the task of challenging people. Every single employee is always watching for suspicious behavior.
So if it is a terrorist attack, the TSA is not going to see a bomb. They might see a tiny hint of something to come, but no one is going to walk by the TSA with a WMD. They are more sophisticated than this and have other ways of getting them in.
If there is no penalty for trying to board a plane while with lookalike dangerous items, then there is nothing to deter one from "probing" the screening for weaknesses, and the system is worthless.