Security lines at JFK airport, NYC

https://lemmy.world/post/44851115

Boy am I glad they’re making sure a terrorist with a bomb can’t get onto a plane to kill a lot of people packed together in a crowded place.

Can’t blow up a plane if nobody can get onto the plane!

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Blows up airport instead ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Well, that’s not TSAs direct job, so they don’t care.
They’re called TSA, not G(round)SA or A(irport)SA or… for a reason!
TBH I wonder why it hasn’t happened yet. Imagine the loss of freedom 🇺🇸 🦅 once that happens
How about onion layers of security checks that start about a mile from your gate? That way the bad guys are only in the outer lines where passenger density is still low…
Start with Vehicle check points a mile from the airport
It has, in Belgium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Brussels_bombings Maybe it wasn’t close enough to scare the ‘muricans?
2016 Brussels bombings - Wikipedia

I’m honestly not too sure USAmericans believe in Belgium.

It’s like global warming or some such.

I was sort of surprised that bombing didn’t have more effects than it did. It really did seem to highlight some issues.

Yes, that was the joke. lol
Terror is so easy to accomplish via random crowds and isolated unprotected infrastructure that it makes one wonder if any of it was really terror.

Let’s concentrate all the people in one place so that they can’t bring weapons onto a plane. Nothing could go wrong…

Just a half dozen bags dropped off in the course of 10 minutes.

These are poor people, so the powers that be don’t care