You appear to have missed my point. You cannot use a hockey stick, a baseball bat, or a Bic lighter to commandeer an airliner. Therefore, these so-called security measures are not of any use to prevent anyone from hijacking an airliner. Therefore, they were either implemented without anyone having a clear understanding of what they were supposed to do, or the TSA has bought into the notion that it is somehow worse to kill someone on board an airliner than it is to kill the same person in the terminal building, the parking lot, or a shopping mall in Boise, Idaho.