[supercat]

The fact is that violating the rules about carrying knives onboard puts everyone on the aircraft at risk irrespective of the intentions of the person carrying it...

Oh really? Are knives like wild animals, just waiting to leap out of their containers and start slaughering people autonomously? Might make an interesting movie I suppose...

For some reason, the TSA seems to be willfully ignorant of two facts that are much more real than yours:

1. No hijacker armed only with bladed weapons less than 6" long is ever again going to be allowed to take over an aircraft; even armed with a pair of 18" short swords it'd be dicey.
2. Knives that can evade metal detectors have been around so long they could be considered stone-age technology.

These fines exist to mollify the sheep; they have nothing whatsoever to do with actual security.

[an amused spectator]

No hijacker armed only with bladed weapons less than 6" long is ever again going to be allowed to take over an aircraft; even armed with a pair of 18" short swords it'd be dicey.

I'll go even farther and say that hijackers with automatic weapons will have a hard time taking and holding a plane without killing most or all of the passengers.

Yeah, I'm just going to sit there and wait till Mohammed flies the plane into a building because he's got an AK-47.

Hijackers with knives are going to get laughed at before the passengers take away the knives and begin performing random amputations.

[Damagro]

These fines exist to mollify the sheep; they have nothing whatsoever to do with actual security.


These fines exist to try and get the point accross to idiots not to bring steak knives to the airport in their purse. How much delay was caused by this one nimwit that day? The TSA gets the blame for the delay, but it was Ms steakknife that caused it