During a recent trip via an airplane, I’d decided to not check a bag and just carry on my small suitcase. This decision was made before I arrived at the security check, but after it was too late to shop for travel sized toiletries. So when my toothpaste was confiscated, I took it in stride (though I did find it curious that an even larger container of sun block was okay) as I knew the rules and the TSA employee was doing his job. No harm, no foul (unless you count my soon-to-be rank breath).
Now jump forward to me sitting on the plane, the seatbelt sign has been turned on, and we’re allowed to turn on our electronic devices. I get settled in, have my music player set to a relaxing band, and casually glance between the seats in front of me to view a foot and a half wooden spear. A seemingly American loving middle aged woman was crocheting what appeared to be the beginnings of a scarf for who I assume was her equally American loving grandchild. I’ll grant you that I’m not an expert on the mind of a terrorist (I only know that they hate our freedoms), but as a general idea I find it to be more probable that one could do harm with a wooden crochet needle than to construct a bomb from materials hidden in a full size tube of toothpaste.
While I am asking that we get back to a point of relaxing just a bit when it comes to how many ounces of cologne we can carry on a plane (I’m assuming that there is no way you can make a bomb out of 3 oz. of liquid, only 4 and greater), in the meantime can we keep legitimate weapons out of the cabin of a hundred thousand pound flying tube of metal and fuel? You’re making it hard to be a raging liberal US government!
