We'll always be vulnerable, complete security is impossible. Are we more or less safe? That's not quantifiable. Maybe if we were deep inside the NSA or something we might be able to make some educated guesses about it, but even then that's all it would be.
But as for the precautions at airports - well, a few things;
1. Putting guns on planes. Wow, what a wonderful plan. Al Qaeda, despite all that planning, was unable to get a gun onboard an airplane. But now EVERY airplane has a gun onboard. Pure genius. I suppose in this respect we're less safe now.
2. If you really want to raise the security level, it's going to cost a fortune. Most of the staff responsible for our safety on a plane are low-income earners, and I can't speak for non-Australian airports but over here many of them are on the take. So I'd say that's one big priority - but then again it may cripple the airlines to have to pay for better staff, so what are you going to do?
maccool said:
It's also my mom's birthday. She's 61. Kind of a ****ty birthday thing if you ask me.
Better than having a birthday on Christmas Day though. Or on February 29. And on the up side, no-one forgets it.
Evil Conservative Inc said:
Until Pres. Wacky Macky Amajinglejangle
Stop saying Wacky Macky. Macky is not a word. You can't find anything either derogatory or appropriate that rhymes with "wacky", accept it.
bladesyz said:
The only criteria of safety is the number of incidents over the amount of time.
So, since it's been five years since 9/11, how about we just examine the ratio?
How many terrorist incidents happened in the last five years? How many happened in the five years before 9/11? And the five years before that?
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DurfBarian said:
On this day in 2003 John Ritter passed away. RIP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11
Well, his show was an act of terrorism so it doesn't bother me.