The suspect, who carried the explosive in his underwear, passed through security at two airports — in Nigeria and Amsterdam, Netherlands. Plus he was not on any “no-fly” list, even though he was on a massive federal database of people with suspected ties to terrorists and his father apparently had warned U.S. embassy officials in Nigeria about his son.
Didn’t work to keep airline flights safe, which was its primary purpose, it’s not going to work any better to keep them from having access to guns.
Primary purpose isn’t to keep flights safe, it’s to keep people flying by making them feel safe. Kind of like gun laws, really…