[thoughtomator]

Box cutters would be a non-issue in the face of adequate firearms training and equipment provided to ship crews.

[kayak]

But it is the passengers, not the box cutters, who are the dangerous components that must be stopped at the gate. An 80-year old woman with a box cutter does not scare me. Right now, “PC” TSA screeners are what scare me.

Oh, no! Common sense! We can't have that! < /sarcasm >

[Prime Choice]

I don't understand this guy's vehement condemnation of the kid who showed just how utterly nonexistent airport security really is.

Ignorance is NOT bliss when it comes to security. Rest assured that if a 20-year-old can break security on a lark, a terrorist with hate in his heart will slice through said illusory "security" like a hot knife through butter.

I presume the author of this claptrap would prefer that everyone be good little sheeple and not buck the system so he can express uninhibited outrage when (not if) the nonexistent security is breached by another suicide hijacker crew.

Me, I'd rather have 100 penetration testers expose the flaws in airline security than 1 genuine terrorist.

[tkathy]

Fools who put box cutters on airplanes are not normal. This is like excusing flashers who go on to rape. This guy should be put away for some years.

[varon]

And you know that some of these devices managed to end up on the plane where they remained hidden while the passenger prayed that his lapse was never discovered.

I just can't imagine a box cutter being an item carried around by the average person. I haven't seen box cutters on chains around necks as fashion accessories. I can't imagine that many grocery "stock boys" going directly from their job to the airport with the box cutter still in their posession.

So, the question is, why the surge of hidden box cutters on aircraft all of a sudden? I don't buy the "memory lapse" BS at all.