<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cheald</author><text>&amp;gt; Current estimates are that hundreds of people die each year in car accidents because they chose to drive rather than deal with TSA lines. This means that every few years the TSA manages to inflict more casualties than 9&amp;#x2F;11 did.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t have a link, but at one point, someone did the math on the backscatter machines (the ones that emitted ionizing radiation, which have since been replaced) and the number of people going through them and concluded that statistically, the TSA will kill more people through scanner-induced cancer than the hijackers did on 9&amp;#x2F;11.</text><parent_chain><item><author>btilly</author><text>Can we just get rid of the TSA?&lt;p&gt;Current estimates are that hundreds of people die each year in car accidents because they chose to drive rather than deal with TSA lines.  This means that every few years the TSA manages to inflict more casualties than 9&amp;#x2F;11 did.  In addition to inconvenience, economic inefficiency, and a demonstrably ineffective screening process that weapons can easily get through.  (As many have shown.)&lt;p&gt;Security theater is a dangerously bad idea no matter how you look at it.  Can we do something saner?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TSA&apos;s Head of Security &apos;Removed&apos; from Office</title><url>http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/23/479242102/tsas-head-of-security-removed-from-office-says-house-panel</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cynoclast</author><text>Let&amp;#x27;s not forget that every single warrantless search is a violation of the 4th amendment. Every. Single. One.&lt;p&gt;Yet we let them do this, because they&amp;#x27;re holding our ability to move freely about the country hostage.</text><parent_chain><item><author>btilly</author><text>Can we just get rid of the TSA?&lt;p&gt;Current estimates are that hundreds of people die each year in car accidents because they chose to drive rather than deal with TSA lines.  This means that every few years the TSA manages to inflict more casualties than 9&amp;#x2F;11 did.  In addition to inconvenience, economic inefficiency, and a demonstrably ineffective screening process that weapons can easily get through.  (As many have shown.)&lt;p&gt;Security theater is a dangerously bad idea no matter how you look at it.  Can we do something saner?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>TSA&apos;s Head of Security &apos;Removed&apos; from Office</title><url>http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/23/479242102/tsas-head-of-security-removed-from-office-says-house-panel</url></story>