@Acellan But of course you can bring a glass plate onboard and break it inside your bag (out of sight) into giant shards just by "accidentally" setting the bag down too hard. It's all pointless "security theatre".
I once had a dull aluminum garden spade confiscated from me at an airport in the US - the security guy looked like he was about to drag me off to the police when he saw it, calling it a "6 inch blade". Apparently I was going to scrounge up a whetstone in a gift shop or something and sit there in the lobby for half an hour trying to turn it into a knife. Meanwhile, the inside of my laptop has a number of sharp surfaces that I've accidentally cut myself on while taking it apart in the past, but it was apparently no problem....
People have been making blades since the beginning of time. It literally takes nothing more than two rocks - one glassy (obsidian, chert, etc... or glass for that matter) and one hard, to knapp off chunks. "Making sharp things" is something you're never going to be able to prevent. So yeah, sure, stop people from carrying conveniently-already-made, already-dangerous bladed weapons - fine. But this whole game of trying to stop things that could be made into weapons... it's just absurd. You can't win it.
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@Acellan But of course you can bring a glass plate onboard and break it inside your bag (out of sight) into giant shards just by "accidentally" setting the bag down too hard. It's all pointless "security theatre".
I once had a dull aluminum garden spade confiscated from me at an airport in the US - the security guy looked like he was about to drag me off to the police when he saw it, calling it a "6 inch blade". Apparently I was going to scrounge up a whetstone in a gift shop or something and sit there in the lobby for half an hour trying to turn it into a knife. Meanwhile, the inside of my laptop has a number of sharp surfaces that I've accidentally cut myself on while taking it apart in the past, but it was apparently no problem....
People have been making blades since the beginning of time. It literally takes nothing more than two rocks - one glassy (obsidian, chert, etc... or glass for that matter) and one hard, to knapp off chunks. "Making sharp things" is something you're never going to be able to prevent. So yeah, sure, stop people from carrying conveniently-already-made, already-dangerous bladed weapons - fine. But this whole game of trying to stop things that could be made into weapons... it's just absurd. You can't win it.