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Yes, the obvious takeaway from all those knives and guns? For decades folks have been bringing all that stuff on airplanes and there never was a 9-11. Never was
by DanielBMarkham 10y ago
Yes, the obvious takeaway from all those knives and guns? For decades folks have been bringing all that stuff on airplanes and there never was a 9-11. Never was an inflight shooting as far as I know.
By reporting this stuff they're actually making the case of how totally useless they are -- and how pointless and misguided the "find the weapon" school of security theater is.
- maxerickson 10y agoIt seems it is merely incredibly rare. This guy shot the pilots: http://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/burke-david.htm http://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/burke-david.htm This guy stabbed one pilot to death before he was subdued: http://murderpedia.org/male.N/n/nishizawa-yuji.htm http://murderpedia.org/male.N/n/nishizawa-yuji.htm The stabbing occurred after he reported the security flaw he used to get the knife on board the plane. Previously checked baggage could be picked up after passing through security for another flight. He was able to simply take the knife out of a bag he had checked on a previous flight.
- DanielBMarkham 10y agoThere was also a guy that planted a bomb in order to kill his wife. I'm guessing the number of weapons on U.S. planes that get by security run into the thousands every year. And before all the checks, probably the tens or hundreds of thousands per year. Looks extremely rare. I mean really, really extremely rare. Handful of examples and roughly 9 million U.S. airline flights last year[1] It'd be interesting to run some comparative statistics. I bet the odds show that you're safer with a plane full of gun owners, having their guns in holsters and loaded, than you are spending the same amount of time in each of those gun owners' homes. [1] http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/acts http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/acts