And you're right to do so. I hope you don't have such a low opinion of me that you'd think I approve of someone carrying a loaded firearm onto an airplane (that isn't on-duty law enforcement of course), these fools and jackwads that do that, yeesh.
But they would have been caught by pre-9/11 airport security. Heck, one time in the '90s I was flying home from Project:A-Kon and I got pulled aside because I had stuffed my gift chopsticks in my carryon and they couldn't make hide nor hair over what those things were! :)
No, when I bitch about 'security theater' I'm talking about things like the 'fluid restriction' and removing belts (shoes, man, that's a real coinflip to me if that's useful NOW or just stupid) and the stories of kids getting hassled because they have an action figure with a tiny little gun. there's a LOT of different vectors angling together here of course but it's meaningless monkey motion on the whole.
Take the fluids limit. The logic is this prevents dangerous amounts of 'something' (binary explosives, combustible liquid, poison gas and so on) being brought on board. Real Hollywood action movie stuff. OK, it's a concern. With my 'general knowledge' I could probably put something together out of household chemicals that could be dangerous, I'm sure you could as well. So, seems like a good idea. But the logic isn't followed thru! Say you're a bad guy, and you want to use a binary liquid explosive to blow up an airliner. 3 oz. won't do enough damage. So you have 4 or 5 or whatever comrades all carry a tiny amount and you put it together in the bathroom in the pop bottle you bought inside the secured area. boom. What should be done is NO fluids brought on board except for food bought inside the secure area. THAT would make sense. How do you (they) figure that 3 oz. is 'safe enough'?
And we can't talk about how lax the security checks are for the people who clean the plane and handle the luggage and all that 'inside the zone' stuff.
blah blah blah. The obvious solution is become rich and have your own airplane. :)
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But they would have been caught by pre-9/11 airport security. Heck, one time in the '90s I was flying home from Project:A-Kon and I got pulled aside because I had stuffed my gift chopsticks in my carryon and they couldn't make hide nor hair over what those things were! :)
No, when I bitch about 'security theater' I'm talking about things like the 'fluid restriction' and removing belts (shoes, man, that's a real coinflip to me if that's useful NOW or just stupid) and the stories of kids getting hassled because they have an action figure with a tiny little gun. there's a LOT of different vectors angling together here of course but it's meaningless monkey motion on the whole.
Take the fluids limit. The logic is this prevents dangerous amounts of 'something' (binary explosives, combustible liquid, poison gas and so on) being brought on board. Real Hollywood action movie stuff. OK, it's a concern. With my 'general knowledge' I could probably put something together out of household chemicals that could be dangerous, I'm sure you could as well. So, seems like a good idea. But the logic isn't followed thru! Say you're a bad guy, and you want to use a binary liquid explosive to blow up an airliner. 3 oz. won't do enough damage. So you have 4 or 5 or whatever comrades all carry a tiny amount and you put it together in the bathroom in the pop bottle you bought inside the secured area. boom. What should be done is NO fluids brought on board except for food bought inside the secure area. THAT would make sense. How do you (they) figure that 3 oz. is 'safe enough'?
And we can't talk about how lax the security checks are for the people who clean the plane and handle the luggage and all that 'inside the zone' stuff.
blah blah blah. The obvious solution is become rich and have your own airplane. :)