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too young to remember 9/11? :)
by bdangubic 2y ago
too young to remember 9/11? :)
- dmitrygr 2y ago> too young to remember 9/11? :) Too lazy to read the many GAO reports that all demonstrate TSA accuracy at finding dangerous items never topping 5%?
- bdangubic 2y agosure, that is why we have all these on-board incidents and terrorist attacks crashing airplanes left and right with millions of people flying daily :)
- sosborn 2y agoHow regularly was that happening pre-911?
- cogman10 2y agoWe'd see a plane hijack roughly once per year. Though it wasn't common for the hijacker to try and kill everyone on board.
- bdangubic 2y agoabout once per year but it makes no difference what happened pre 9/11 - it matters what we did to ensure that 9/11 doesn't happen again
- insane_dreamer 2y agoLots in the 70s but by the 90s it was very infrequent in the US. And most hijackings did not result in casualties (or very few casualties). People didn’t hijack with intent to kill the selves and everyone on board. Probably more people died from the shooting down of planes by militaries than by hijackings.
- Lammy 2y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgNvKr010pc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgNvKr010pc
- llm_trw 2y agoThe summer of 9/11 I brought on a full suit of hoplite armor with shield and spear on board a regional plane. The stewardess told me I can't have it in the passenger compartment so I should just give it to the pilot before takeoff. I'm not saying that we should let people board in full armor again, but surely there is a happy medium?
- bee_rider 2y agoYou just didn’t know there was a Sky Legionnaire up there ready to mess you up if you started anything.
- oceanplexian 2y agoI have vivid memories from childhood hugging my grandma before flying right at the gate. Unfortunately people have a short memory. Kids these days will have no memory of how free of a country we lived in even 25 years ago.
- selectodude 2y agoOn the contrary, not having to hang out with somebody at the airport before they leave is such a gift.
- scarface_74 2y agoBuy a refundable ticket, go through security, cancel ticket. People do it all of the time for other reasons.
- saagarjha 2y agoI’d rather we could have nice things.
- scarface_74 2y agoAnd the airport is already crowded. The last thing we need are people not even flying anywhere.
- insane_dreamer 2y agoI was 30 years old, saw it live on TV. So ... no But as others have pointed out, a lot of the TSA processes (taking off shoes, laptops, liquids, etc.) are pointless. What prevents another 9/11 are the cockpit doors, which have nothing to do with TSA.
- bdangubic 2y agothe shoes, the tooth paste, the water… are all necessary security theatre. the real work is happening behind the scenes. but the theatre is also necessary (albeit not as dramatic as we have it now :) )
- insane_dreamer 2y agohow is the theatre also necessary?
- bdangubic 2y agoit is necessary so that some Adam Lanza-wannabe doesn’t get any ideas on how to quickly become infamous
- cogman10 2y agoThe school shooters do that because it's shocking and gets in the news. We have so many crowded situations throughout the world where an equal splash could be made. We need about as much security around the airport as we need around a subway or a concert. After the dark knight shooting, we didn't find the need to put up xray scanners in every movie theater. It's dumb to do that with airports. Were I to guess, the reason we focus so heavily on airports is because our lawmakers fly more than most of the population. The theater is likely their safety blanket.
- bdangubic 2y agoWe need about as much security around the airport as we need around a subway or a concert. as soon as we have 2.7 million people in subway and/or concert daily in the US you'd be right... until then...
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