As an American who frequently travels to Europe for business and pleasure, it's more than the inconvenience. Luggage handlers frequently lose or damage luggage

As an American who frequently travels to Europe for business and pleasure, it's more than the inconvenience. Luggage handlers frequently lose or damage luggage--not rarely, but frequently. Most of my bags are pretty beat up. Just watch them load baggage onto a plane sometime, then tell me you feel comfortable leaving $4000 in equipment in a baggage hold. Furthermore, there are many, many instances of lithium batteries unintentionally catching fire mid-flight. While the device is in the cabin, passengers can douse the flames. Now imagine a device in a cargo hold...over the Atlantic...with dozens of other flammable batteries...catching fire...where no one can get to it and there's no place to land... Most importantly, this fear of being killed by a terrorist is getting ridiculous. We give up everything just on the off chance somebody might try to disable a plane. But we still get into cars, walk down streets, attend movies and plays, go out in public, go to work--all activities people are killed on almost a daily basis. As a Colorado resident, we've had schools shot up, movie theaters, even the building down the street from where I work had an "active shooting" situation recently. If we treated the risk of death honestly, we'd spend all our time on planes and none of our time out in the world.