They can't check the bag and run, because the bomb will never get on board. And they can't hijack the plane with a gun, because there is no sure way of getting that weapon on board. The contemporary hijacker, in otherwords, must either be capable of devising a weapon that can get past security or be willing to go down with the plane. Most terrorists have neither the cleverness to meet the first criterion nor the audacity to meeth the second, which is why the total number of hijackings has been falling for the past thirty years. Of course, we all need to get a grip on the fact that our risk of dying in a terrorist attack is vanishingly small as compared to our real risks.
People have a notoriously poor grasp of their own risk profile.
Big eyes staring at it in rapt attention. Sometimes I feel such awful time pressure, though. Every time he falls asleep I run around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to get things done, because I don't know how long I will get. It's like being a contestant on a game show where you have to do as much as you can of something before the time runs out. I have to figure out some other approach to the whole issue before I drive myself kookooputz.