you can shoot a bomb?
In London 7/7 subways and buses were bombed and in madrid 3/11 Trains were bombed. and they didn’t change any security there. WHY? they killed 100’s. Meanwhile two dud “bombers” - who did nothing- Richard Reid and Umar Abdulmutalleb who had only explosive without any blasting caps - which would never work - forced us to change our security here.
>you can shoot a bomb?
To be quite honest, bombs are irrelevant. While it might sound callous, one airplane exploding is small change. Roughly 100 people die per day is auto accidents. Thus a big aircraft would have to explode every three days to match that carnage. This is, of course, extremely unlikely. However we live with that level of fatality in auto travel because we like our freedom to travel. The current idiotic level of airport screening is a cost/benefit nightmare, and is also downright offensive.
Now since we do still have a somewhat fresh memory of 9/11 it is worth noting that there wasn’t a bomb in sight. The planes were the bombs, and since we know of that trick now, an armed pilot, or watchful passengers are all we need to prevent a recurrence. One hit doing 3000 damage is worth of note, but as I said, the trick is spent and is easily preventable.
There is no excuse for the piling on by the O administration of further moronic infringements upon our rights beyond the utter stupidity pushed by the Bush administration. It is a clear example of CYA by bureaucrats. While the TSA might look bad if something goes wrong on an airplane, they are not responsible for the immense amount of wasted time (and the indignities suffered) by passengers.