ICE agents get paychecks. TSA officers get food banks. Same department. Same shutdown. Different bank accounts. Congress chose who eats and who doesn't.
Taking bets its because airplanes have much higher security such as locked cabin doors with limited access. But sure its the guy strip searching you for having 5 ounces of water.
How do you figure that a locked cabin door will stop a hijacking? Sure, they can’t fly the plane, but the only hijacking that I recall that needed that was 9/11.
All he needs to do is let the pilot know that he will start killing passengers, until he agrees to go wherever they want to go. But that’s not what hijackers even want these days. They want to blow up the plane and kill everybody, and that’s easy. All you need is a lithium laptop battery, pierce it, and you’ll have an unquenchable 2000°C fire very quickly. How many laptop batteries are on a plane? Gather them up, get them burning, and that plane is going down. That’s a successful hijacking, and they didn’t even bother to try to get into the cockpit.
TSA/Airport security exists solely to discourage the potential hijacker from trying it at all, and choosing an easier, softer target, and it has been very successful in that objective. FACT, down votes be damned.
Your example of a threat that TSA can prevent is to light laptop batteries on fire, but that is something that TSA does not stop you from doing. Half the people on any flight will have a laptop or tablet out.
You’d still have to control the passengers, and that requires threats and violence. The batteries just bring down the plane, they aren’t the controlling threat.
And those laptop that are out? More batteries, hand them over.
The reason hijackings where not taken seriously until 9/11 was because it was very rare for hijackers to harm passengers.
You litterally said it yourself. 9/11 changed the fact hijackers would use large aircraft as weapons of mass destruction. Preventing control makes them useless for that.
Taking bets its because airplanes have much higher security such as locked cabin doors with limited access. But sure its the guy strip searching you for having 5 ounces of water.
How do you figure that a locked cabin door will stop a hijacking? Sure, they can’t fly the plane, but the only hijacking that I recall that needed that was 9/11.
All he needs to do is let the pilot know that he will start killing passengers, until he agrees to go wherever they want to go. But that’s not what hijackers even want these days. They want to blow up the plane and kill everybody, and that’s easy. All you need is a lithium laptop battery, pierce it, and you’ll have an unquenchable 2000°C fire very quickly. How many laptop batteries are on a plane? Gather them up, get them burning, and that plane is going down. That’s a successful hijacking, and they didn’t even bother to try to get into the cockpit.
TSA/Airport security exists solely to discourage the potential hijacker from trying it at all, and choosing an easier, softer target, and it has been very successful in that objective. FACT, down votes be damned.
Your example of a threat that TSA can prevent is to light laptop batteries on fire, but that is something that TSA does not stop you from doing. Half the people on any flight will have a laptop or tablet out.
You’d still have to control the passengers, and that requires threats and violence. The batteries just bring down the plane, they aren’t the controlling threat.
And those laptop that are out? More batteries, hand them over.
The reason hijackings where not taken seriously until 9/11 was because it was very rare for hijackers to harm passengers.
You litterally said it yourself. 9/11 changed the fact hijackers would use large aircraft as weapons of mass destruction. Preventing control makes them useless for that.