The Transportation Security Administration(TSA) has announced that they will remove restrictions on blades under 2.36 inches and narrower than a half inch. That's right, effective April 25 of this year passengers are now allowed to carry on board their pocketknives or any blade that fits the new regulations by the TSA. The Administration has said that after analyses they have deemed them as a non threat item.
I believe that the new regulation should not have been approved. The TSA Administrator Jhon Pistole has declare that " A small pocketknife is simply not going to result in the catastrophic failure of an aircraft". And yes maybe a blade does not have the potential to create huge damage to an aircraft, but it certainly can be consider as a weapon with the potential to create damage to a person. There is always the risk of misuse for a blade, because that kind of artifact can easily be use to damage flesh and arteries which can be lethal on cases. There could be a group of people that get together and plot to attack at the same time and that making it a little bit more harder to defend each other when there is a lot of people trying to attack.
Unions representing employees from various branches of the field have already presented their opposition to the new regulations showing that the people who is on the air on a regular basis do not feel safe knowing that blades are allowed to be carry on board. As a potential passenger, I can absolutely say that it definitely does not agree with me having to worry when am flying about the possibility of someone using a blade with malicious intentions.
It is understandable that they want to focus more on the detection of explosive devices, the ones with the potential of causing mayor destruction, but at the end of the day it looks like they going after the big monster by sacrificing the little and seemingly nonthreatening little one. We have to remember that in the world we are living now days there is no small enemies, we have to look out for the little things that have the potential to become a big issue with just a little room for a chance.
http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=462748
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/opinion/dont-let-knives-back-on-planes.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
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I disagree with you that the TSA made the wrong decision to start allowing pocket knives on planes. At a Penn and Teller show that my family went to, they demonstrated a plastic knife that could kill somebody, yet it got past the metal detector. What is stopping somebody that wants to take control of a plane from getting one of those knives? If they really wanted to take control of it, why couldn’t they take it without the knife? Having a pocket knife is not going to increase the chances of taking control of a plane. Given the cockpit security, if someone is trained to take a plane, they will figure out a way to get past the system. I highly doubt that there will be an increase of attempts at hijacking a plane once this regulation goes into effect, nor will it increase the chances of attack.
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