That’s my point though : they don’t really need to stop intelligent dedicated people from getting weapons into planes. They need to stop mentally unstable teenagers and lone wolf terrorists imitators, who are much easier to stop and may in fact just not try if the TSA project an image of security.
Not in theory but in practice I’m not impressed by those we saw in France recently. Most of them were recruited through propaganda videos on internet and sorely lacked in competence. The Bataclan attacks were deadly but they also failed badly on their only protected target at the Stade de France. The general pattern seems to be a high profile relatively competent group followed by not very competent imitators.
That’s my point though : they don’t really need to stop intelligent dedicated people from getting weapons into planes. They need to stop mentally unstable teenagers and lone wolf terrorists imitators, who are much easier to stop and may in fact just not try if the TSA project an image of security.
Is there something that keeps terrorists from being intelligent, dedicated people?
Not in theory but in practice I’m not impressed by those we saw in France recently. Most of them were recruited through propaganda videos on internet and sorely lacked in competence. The Bataclan attacks were deadly but they also failed badly on their only protected target at the Stade de France. The general pattern seems to be a high profile relatively competent group followed by not very competent imitators.