He would have known they were going to make him take his shoes off and so tried something else instead that would probably have been more likely to work.

Oh?

I don’t think anything is more likely to work.

Ok.

So all the additional security measures that have been added over the years have been pointless, and not a result of us learning from our mistakes. Got it.

just like they aren’t capable of preventing any mass killings

They haven’t had the same reaction to mass killings as they’ve had to terrorist attacks on planes. Nothing changes from those mass killings except we get more thoughts and prayers nowadays. They never made people start taking their guns off (or were able to enforce it) after mass killings.

The only thing that could work is creating an overall situation in society where people are less motivated to do it, not preventing specific acts.

Yea… we are doing the opposite of that right now with the current administration. And now shoes are valid hiding places again…. Yippee-ki-yay