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You’re conflating TSA with just putting a locked door at the front of the airplane. One of those was effective, and it was it the TSA. The TSA has an over 90% failure rate, by their own metrics.
This may be the stupidest argument I've ever had. You people are arguing like MAGAs.
Hundreds of hijackings before TSA, including 9/11. None in the 25 years since TSA and the new protocols. The system isn't perfect, but it's clearly worked, and even with it's imperfections, it's far better than NOTHING, which seems to be the only alternative suggestion.
I get it, air travel is a pain in the ass, and there is always a bit of a wait for the security screening. So what? We wait everywhere - the bank, the barber, the fast food drive through line, the grocery store, etc. Isn't spending some time in line worth not getting blown out of the sky?
Do you people actually think air travel will be SAFER without airport security? Because we had security before 9/11, and it still happened. Without any security, we'll go back to that 4 year period in the 70s when we had over 300 hijackings, more than one per week. That'll be fun, right?
I only made one point in my short post and you completely failed to address it.
Locked doors have stopped the hijackings, and those are already paid for. So why do we need TSA?
You think that locked cockpit doors are the ONLY thing keeping trouble from happening in the sky? What's to stop them from killing and torturing passengers, lighting fires, setting off bombs, etc.? All you really need to do is pierce a lithium battery, and you have 1000°C fire that is extremely difficult to extinguish. That will bring down a plane as surely as killing the pilot.
The locked cockpit door is the last line of defense. It's not a good idea to get rid of every other defense before that. It's pretty important to keep trouble off the plane in the first place.
Luggage still goes through security scans.
But they do prevent hijackings....
They prevent hijackers from getting into the cockpit, but you can hijack or bring down a plane in many other ways.
Damage or destroy, sure. But to me, hijacking means taking control of the aircraft, and I don't see that happening without cockpit access. (Not that doors are impenetrable, but still.)