Of course! This is the way government regulations work!
When the governmet issued regulations on how many rodent hairs could legally be in a hot dog, the average rodent hair per hot dog WENT UP!
Why?
Everybody had a common standard which they could meet.
Some companies had to clean up.
Others felt they were authorized to be dirtier!
The same si true here.
If it were competitive, then UAL could advertise they had a marshall for every 40 passengers, AAL wants to have one for every 20! Or maybe Southwest advertises dogs on every flight!
If the public wants safety, they'll get it, if the market is allowed to work.
If the public wants safety, they'll get it, if the market is allowed to work.
They safety worked. It kept all guns off the plane. The government said you can't highjack a plane with out guns or bombs. These guys did it with out guns or bombs. PHD's and people paid $20,000 per minute would not have stopped this.
Can you imagine the out cry if someone had kept these guys off the plane. They were Arabs with legal knives under the law. Sarah Brady type lawyers made the rules. NO govenment mandated rules were violated. What if they had more stringent searches. The highjackers would have just observed the rules and found a way around them.
How does money improve the quality of the search when the highjackers passed the required search. They can and will make the rules much harder. The highjackers will find a way to succeed no matter what the rules for travel are.
A terrorists could wear belt with at least 20 inches of cat gut thread sewn into it. He could carry a ball point pen and pencil in his breast pocket. He could go to the john on the plane and remove the cat gut thread from his belt. He would come out of the John and call the stew over as if he were in severe pain. When she comes up he slip the gut string around her neck using the pens as handles and cuts her jugular vein with it. This method was the silent way to kill German guards in WWII. It was used by the resistance in France. They of course had no reason to hide the gut string as thread in a belt, but that is were they got some of it they used to kill.
Back to our highjacking senerio. The terrorists then drops the dying stew and grabs a lady passenger the same way and screams if any pasenger moves the lady gets it.
His assistants have at the same time used the same weapons to hold several passengers.
BINGO the plane is highjacked.
Sears has every thing. Including mens belts sewn with a material as strong and sharp as cat gut.
Would it have made these people feel better if the people who let men with a pen, pencils and leather belts on board had advanced degrees and were paid $10,000 per minute?
If they make ball point pens illegal, can they take a babby on board with a couple of rattles for handles and cat gut string hidden in dirty diapers?
The Germans disarmed all the French during the occupation of France during WWII. The resistance still found ways to kill Germans.