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More people are choosing to drive instead of fly whenever they can to avoid the security / airport hassles ... as a result, statistically speaking, Americans, as a group, are less safe than before.
It's much like how the U.S. public schools have become more akin to minimum security prisons in recent years despite the fact that school violence had been decreasing in recent years prior to Columbine...
And while on that, Columbine at the time of the shootings in 1999, already had many of the security measures (cameras, security guards, limited access, etc) in place that other public schools have since instituted in the belief they will prevent such violence ...
But such measures didn't work for Columbine ... why would they work any better elsewhere...
About all the cameras installed at Columbine accomplished was to immortalize the killers, but I digress.
Anyways, throwing technology at potential security risks makes people feel good, but often does little alone to truly improve security...
A more effective approach is teaching people the proper way to behave; right / wrong, etc ... but that takes much time and doesn't fit into nice 30 second soundbites on the TV ... so politicians use the time-proven F.U.D. approach and, predictably, much of the populous falls for it and submits to whatever the government wants without question.
Ron
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