Yeah, Wino.
Well you could have said that without the gratuitous remarks about Europeans, couldn't you?
If no contraband was used on the ill-fated internal flights on Sept 11, then the items must have been legal on US airlines as well, mustn't they?
Europeans place the same value on human life that Americans do, and are no more willing to accept civilian casualties.
We (generally) don't think that bigger and better guns are necessarily always the answer to every situation.
This is not America, but all that makes us is different.