RUNNING With BLOOD

"When weapons are allowed back on board an aircraft, the pilots will be able to land the plane safety but the aisles will be running with blood."

You know, I'm a fan of gratuitous hyperbole - ask my boss! - but this is insane. Five years ago, I regularly carried sewing scissors on the plane, as well as a small screwdriver set for my glasses. The aisles did not run with blood, although I do confess to running with scissors in the terminal a time or two. This was back when I was still smoking a pack a day, so in addition to scissors, I was also usually carrying today's most dangerous piece of air travel contraband, a cheap plastic lighter. My god, I was a terrorist incident just WAITING TO HAPPEN.

Have we really come to this? Has our collective attention span grown so short that we can't even remember five measly years ago, when everyone had scissors, cigarette lighters, and tweezers in their overnight bags and no one ever died from any of the above?

And as a side note - how come, in the modern age when we're hardly allowed to carry anything useful on the plane, the "carryons" have gotten to be the size of steamer trunks?