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>It doesn't matter if the guy doesn't get on the plane - he could just do it in the terminal and cause even more casualties. Well, if the bad guy was denied bo
by la_barba 7y ago
>It doesn't matter if the guy doesn't get on the plane - he could just do it in the terminal and cause even more casualties.
Well, if the bad guy was denied boarding, then by definition the security is not "pure theater", and at-least as far as the screening is concerned, it did work as intended. It seems obvious to me that at this moment in time, the populace is more sensitive to violence occurring in certain kinds ofplaces. The idea that the same could occur in a park or a train or a bus or a stadium is not lost on anyone.
- wongarsu 7y agoIf you want to cause a high number of casulties one of the most effective places to plant a bomb would probably be the line in front of an airport security checkpoint. But of course "causing casulties" and "causing terror" isn't nessesarily the same.
- marcinzm 7y agoThere's a lot of places with packed lines however bombs aren't that great in open spaces. A similarly sized bomb on a plane would kill a lot more people. Most mass casualty bombings seem to involve multiple coordinated attacks in dense locations and still don't get near the death toll of a single medium sized airplane.