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> Imagine a terrorist with an RPG walking into the front door of an airport and firing upon the security checkpoint.

Exactly! I've seen 500+ people at security checkpoints at Chicago O'Hare. A couple people with AK-47s could likely kill far more people than a shoe bomb on a plane.

That this sort of thing hasn't happened seems an indication of just how impotent Al Qaeda is these days.




As soon as any airport is attacked like that imagine the new security fun we'll get.

Responses like car searches coming into the airport with guns pointed at you and other things that will make our current wait on getting to an airplane look like a distant dream. And picking people up at the airport will become more painful than a dentist visit.


How impotent it always was.




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