John Carroll

Here's a sign that our security precautions might be getting a little out of hand. Granted, I understand completely why we need more security at airports. However, evacuating an airport and forcing a plane already in the air to return so that the passengers can be rescanned because a pair of scissors had been found in the ladies room trash seems a bit much.

Seriously, how many people these days would allow some idiot to take over a plane with little more than a sharp instrument? Not many, I would imagine, knowing what we know now. I'm more worried about shoe bombs a la Richard Reid than passengers ever again allowing men with box cutters to hijack a plane.