No,he's right. Why the hell is everybody having a bleeping hissy-fit over a damn box cutter? It's not a science fiction death ray,and it's not even easy to kill somebody with one. No way in hell is a guy with a box cutter able to hold people hostage who don't want to be held hostage.
Exactly. If the terrorists on the planes that were crashed into buildings or even the one in PA....I the passenger had stopped them at the first sign of trouble then none of this would have ever happened. Of course the passengers had no way of knowing that the hijacker's had already sealed there fate. Those on the PA figured that out while talking on the phone and that was the end of there passiveness. This scheme would be a whole lot more difficult for a terrorist to implement from that day forward.
Litigation. If something did happen after that, and someone had phoned their spouse that a box cutter was found but nothing was done about it??? And even if nothing happened afterwards, anyone who saw the boxcutter would be on Geraldo Rivera and Larry King telling of it, and how the airlines 'DID NOTHING ABOUT IT' so they had to worry all through the flight and now they need counseling. I agree it is insane. But it is the hyper-litigious society in which we are living.
And 99% of the people are not about to risk their own life to find out any differently -- "one way or the other". That's the way it is.