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Not really. You see what really happened after 9-11 is that the Terrorists Really won as they have led us to self-impose a level of security to travel by air that is beyond reasonable and reality. They have in effect given those in Government the opportunity to impose a Police State on us that at one point we The Public were willing to cede.
But you see what one point do we question all of that? Do we relinquish our Liberty all in the name of safer, or in reality, the illusion of safer Air Travel or do we demand that our rights be maintained.
Granted I am not advocating no security measures I am only questioning just how much security is really necessary.
The statistics I quoted only point out for the amount of money we are spending the real chances of anything happening are remote at best.
Our Intelligence Operations are our best bet of keeping terrorists from carrying out activities and they are doing that job very well.

I agree with most everything in your post #18. However,...

Let’s say the Chinese government ordered a deliberate attack on several buses full of American tourists, killing 300. Should we ignore it because, after all, more Americans are killed on our highways every year?

Or if the Mexican federales started sniping at our soldiers guarding the border, killing 14, should we ignore it because, after all, more Americans die falling off ladders cleaning the leaves out of their rain gutters?

Numbers don’t make decisions for us, nor should they. And, as Mark Twain was telling us, trying to make decisions based on numbers alone is the worst of the worst.

I don’t like these illegal “security measures” any more than you do. But we’ve got to be smart, and not hand the tyrants an easy defense for their tyranny.

If I had the chance to ask Janet Neapolitan a question on live TV, it would be this: “Is it possible to make air travel safe AND abide by the Constitution? Or are you asking the American people to choose between the Constitution and the protection you offer?”