"Jeff" jfranks1971 minus writes:

Well, IMO, I think the 30 NM TFR is a joke. If someone REALLY wanted to do
damage to a building/person/event, 30 miles isn't going to keep a jet
traveling at 6.5 miles per minute at bay for long. Now, my
C172...ok...they've got 15 minutes to shoot me down before my plane bounces
off the wall and kills no one but me

There are plenty of missiles that can fly that distance in 30 seconds or so,
and they don't need to be fired from an aircraft. Currently there is no
really effective defense against missile attacks for aircraft, which is a
constant source of stress for a lot of people. Apparently they believe that
if they don't talk about it, it won't happen.

It amazes me that most of the terror deterrents seem to be in the area of
aviation.

It sounds like people are making the classic mistake of protecting against
risks they know and think they understand, while ignoring risks they don't
know or don't understand. So they worry about the potential threat from a
slow moving unarmed Cessna rather than the threat from a ground-based,
shoulder-mounted missile launcher.

We can't cover all our bases, so I guess they just cover the popular ones.

Yup. See above.