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ccoady t1_iyd1tv8 wrote

Reply to comment by Turtley13 in Who decided on the fine by fireintheskyy

Well, 9/11 was carried out with box cutters. The pilots throats were slit. Also, there could have been an armed Air Marshal on board. Those would have been detected at the gate and not let onto the plane. In the case of the plane that was overtaken by passengers.

Now think. There have been ZERO terrorist attacks or hijackings since 9/11 involving planes. The job of the TSA is to ensure safety of passengers and prevent concealed weapons from making it's way onto the plane. The simple fact that there have been ZERO terrorist attacks shows you the TSA has been a deterrent. So it may have prevented terrorist attacks, we just don't know how many of the thousands of confiscated weapons every year were intended to be used on the plane. Maybe zero, maybe 10.

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Turtley13 t1_iyda3vw wrote

So reinforced doors and Air Marshals stop hijackings not TSA.

GOtcha.

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ccoady t1_iydgj3v wrote

No, scanners and TSA agents stop weapons from being brought on board by catching thousands of guns per year and 10's of thousands of knives. The fact that would be terrorists now KNOW they can't get these on board because of the scanning, TSA pat downs, no-fly lists, air marshals, secure cockpit doors, bomb sniffing dogs, etc.

You're so close to getting it, but I have a feeling you don't WANT to understand.

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