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Imagine a terrorist with an RPG walking into the front door of an airport and firing upon the security checkpoint. Or shooting down a large jetliner from the si
by cstejerean 14y ago
Imagine a terrorist with an RPG walking into the front door of an airport and firing upon the security checkpoint. Or shooting down a large jetliner from the side of the highway next to the airport.
You can't make security policy decisions based on hypothetical horror stories alone. If you don't balance fear with reason you end up with ridiculously expensive policies that do absolutely nothing to increase safety.
- ceejayoz 14y ago> Imagine a terrorist with an RPG walking into the front door of an airport and firing upon the security checkpoint. Exactly! I've seen 500+ people at security checkpoints at Chicago O'Hare. A couple people with AK-47s could likely kill far more people than a shoe bomb on a plane. That this sort of thing hasn't happened seems an indication of just how impotent Al Qaeda is these days.
- bct 14y agoHow impotent it always was.
- mitchty 14y agoAs soon as any airport is attacked like that imagine the new security fun we'll get. Responses like car searches coming into the airport with guns pointed at you and other things that will make our current wait on getting to an airplane look like a distant dream. And picking people up at the airport will become more painful than a dentist visit.