“Yet, people don’t mind that at all.”
You make an assumption that everyone doesn’t mind the searches at all. I think more likely that they do care but feel they don’t have any choice in the matter. And choice is the very foundation of freedom and liberty, the basic tenants of America.
You have lost a sense of what this country is all about. Just because you’re willing to give up your freedoms to fly doesn’t mean everyone agrees with that approach. I haven’t flown, by CHOICE, since Homeland Security instituted this massive invasion of peoples’ privacies. Besides, the terrorists are looking to other means to attack us now. Just as our president leads from behind, so does his agency, the TSA, instituting more and more invasive procedures all the time. And they staff it with people who have no business performing in a security capacity.
It is a sad day in America when we have to accept these overbearing intrusions to our freedoms and accept them as okay. It is a slippery slope that will result in many other areas of our lives to be restricted. Little by little, like the frog boiling in the water, one day we will wake up and find we aren’t free anymore.
At what point Hoder will it be too much “security” for you? And for you to admit that it is finally too much?
How many people have been murdered in the sky in the past 10 years?
How many innocent lives have been lost by an aircraft flying into a building?
I present an ID, step through a scanner which lasts a whole 3 seconds, my luggage is scanned - which takes about 30 seconds. Knives, pistols, yes - boxcutters, drugs and even C-4 have been discovered in carry-on bags in the past 6 months. Those are the captures we know about.
The degenerate rag-heads want to kill or maim us, and at 37,000 ft, unarmed and innocent people are a known target. The point of Terrorism is not to murder or kill innocents, the purpose of terrorism is to gain political strength that is inordinately stronger than the population of those who weild it. They can do this by dropping liquids (say - oh, Bleach and some Ammonia) on the carpet of a plane, or mixing two inert chemicals to create an explosive mixture.
We are safe. Is the system perfect? Nope, but it’s getting better and better. I’d rather be inconvenienced than dead. If we were to go your route, and remove security - it wouldn’t be long before we had another 9-11 scenario. We have already caught several degenerate rag-head bombers in New York; planes are a much more dramatic target.
If you can think of a better (legal) way we can screen people for weapons/drugs/chemicals - I’m open to suggestions. As-is, Libtards will not allow us to use “Profiling” (a known effective tool), we cannot bar Muslims from airports. If you have a better idea - let’s have it.