The truth always hurts

Unbelievably, I saw this in the original. Didn't think it was funny then, and don't think it's funny now. Oh, sure, Carroll O'Connor was 'joshing' us (the liberal panytwaist that he is), but if it had been implemented, there wouldn't have been a 9.11 incident, other than "a dozen attempted hijackers were blown away by passengers on four flights today"...