In general terrorists have field day whenever they want to strike. But they are not able to attack commercial air liners. Is this luck or better security since 9-11? How would you know or tell? I am probably willing to assume more risk when I fly than the average person. But I think most people are against the inconvenience of airport security as opposed to being against the goal itself. Am I wrong?
They’re totally able to attack commercial airliners, you’re just not paying attention.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_hijackings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_airliner_bombing_attacks
Smart people are against POINTLESS inconvenience. If we REALLY wanted secure air travel we’d go Israeli with our security. But we don’t want that, too inconvenient, we want just enough inconvenience to feel safe without the bother of real security. And some of us recognize that many of these efforts exist solely to gather unrelated evidence and arrest people for unrelated crimes later. Like magnetic strips in your money, they insist it’s anti-counter fitting, but bring $11,000 in cash through an airport metal detector and you’ll find out what the strip (and the metal detector for that matter) are really for.