Honestly, if terrorist really wanted to get explosives onto a plane (a rather cliche and ineffective means of causing terror), they could simply do exactly what the drug mules do and hide them within their body, yes I understand that many explosives are poisionous as are many narcotics that are transported, but they could be contained easily and then extracted midflight, afterall it clearly does not take much to take down an aircraft. They can start scanning people with x-ray devices, but surely this will become an arms race where there is always a means to sneak past.
Fortunately, it really seems that terrorists are really incompetent, I mean they are bombing airplanes, which is probably one of the most ineffective ways to cause terror, as opposed to how gang/military violence in the streets will really make a populace terrified to set foot outside. Honestly I have a bit of faith in our ability to counteract terrorists, however we often overreact to the percieved threat.
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Honestly, if terrorist really wanted to get explosives onto a plane (a rather cliche and ineffective means of causing terror), they could simply do exactly what the drug mules do and hide them within their body, yes I understand that many explosives are poisionous as are many narcotics that are transported, but they could be contained easily and then extracted midflight, afterall it clearly does not take much to take down an aircraft. They can start scanning people with x-ray devices, but surely this will become an arms race where there is always a means to sneak past. Fortunately, it really seems that terrorists are really incompetent, I mean they are bombing airplanes, which is probably one of the most ineffective ways to cause terror, as opposed to how gang/military violence in the streets will really make a populace terrified to set foot outside. Honestly I have a bit of faith in our ability to counteract terrorists, however we often overreact to the percieved threat.