Electronics ban on airplanes is foolish

A new “temporary” restriction, announced by the Department of Homeland Security, bans personal electronics larger than cellphones in the cabins of certain direct flights from the Middle East and Africa to the U.S.

This is absurd. Terrorists can just take a flight to London, Paris or Rome and board a different airline that is not subject to the restriction. Whose brilliant idea was this? Marc Rodstein

This is Muslim discrimination. To select a country that has a high population of Muslims and not allow them to bring their laptops and tablets with them is just wrong. Peter Barone

I guess it’s also discriminatory not to allow Muslims to have large electronics on a plane with them? Liberals will want to take this to court. Thomas Davis

It’s odd that they can allow cellphones, presumably including iPhones, but not iPads. That suggests this has nothing to do with software, since they support the same applications. Tyler Turner

Sounds good to me. They should also X-ray everything else. Robert Benning

More paranoid delusions from Team Trump. David Apkarian

I’m not sure what’s more likely to take a plane down — an explosive hidden inside an iPad or a family trying to take a 10-hour flight with kids and no iPads. Alan Greenspan

But even if you put the laptop under the plane, it’s still on the plane, right? Reginald Nobles

So we can ban electronic devices on airplanes coming out of the Middle East and Africa, but liberals don’t want us to ban potential terrorists themselves? Richard Briggs