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I think we disagree on whether a solution is needed, though. No one's going to be able to use an airplane as a missile again, since cockpits are locked. No passengers will sit idly by while someone with a knife tries to do something, and any benefit of securing planes is completely dwarfed by the giant crowd of vulnerable people in the not-yet-screened lines.

Not only does this solution not solve the problem (unless you consider the problem to be "get re-elected" or "make my election contributors money"), but it centralizes vulnerabilities and makes any destructive event both more dangerous and easier to carry out.




> any benefit of securing planes is completely dwarfed by the giant crowd of vulnerable people in the not-yet-screened lines

Sounds like a problem, we'd better start screening people before they get in line for screening




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