Or make everyone go through metal detectors and millimeter wave scanners at the airport, take their shoes off, treat any liquid over whatever the small limit is

Or make everyone go through metal detectors and millimeter wave scanners at the airport, take their shoes off, treat any liquid over whatever the small limit is like it’s bomb-making material (but still let that person fly; checkmate, would-be bomber!)…it’s all security theater. Notice how they don’t release their testing rates on how many of the test weapons and threats make it through TSA security, because then it would be too easy to point to that and rightfully assert that they utterly fail at their mission while wasting untold lifetimes worth of human time and make travel that much more miserable. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/06/reassessing_air.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/06/reassessing_a... (2015) is a good read on that if you don’t already know. My point is that when politicians do something “to save the children”, it’s rarely about actually helping anyone but themselves.