Of course the number of terrorists trying to do something on domestic flights is vanishingly small. there were 631 million people flying in 2010, for example (

Of course the number of terrorists trying to do something on domestic flights is vanishingly small. there were 631 million people flying in 2010, for example (I did a quick google, I'm sure there are more up to date numbers somewhere). There were 6 terrorist incidents in the US, per wikipedia. Of those 1 involved a plane, which wasn't a passenger jet. Now, maybe all the security theater is keeping terrorists from trying to do something, but given the fact that terrorists are blowing up markets and other buildings in iraq and nothing would really prevent that, I'd say the number of terrorists in the US is just incredibly small. But yeah, it's amazing that the US government can treat everyone as a suspicious individual, get them to pay to not be as big of a suspect, given how little terrorism there actually is. We spend billons of dollars on terrorism that could probably save a lot more lives applied to things like safer cars or reducing medical mistakes.