But they will find your shampoo
Re “Screeners at LAX miss 75% of ‘bombs,’ ” Oct. 19
The widespread failure of security screeners to detect increasingly sophisticated efforts to smuggle fake bomb parts merely points out that absolute air travel security is an unattainable goal.
With this realization, maybe we should rethink the mind-boggling economic expenditure we make in trying to do so, diverting some of those resources to alleviate other life-threatening problems, such as drunk driving, childhood poverty and other social malaises that kill thousands of people every year.
John Brock
Redondo Beach
I don’t know about LAX, but the Transportation Security Administration folks at Burbank Airport detected my toothpaste and aloe vera gel right away.
I feel so secure.
James Cruce
Sherman Oaks
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