"FIRE...BAD!" Lessons from the front lines

A Chicken Is Not Pillage: Fearfully Absurd
Wulfgar analyzes the thinking at the Transportation Security Agency: "the "shoe-bomber" Richard Reid" was unable to set off the explosives in his shoes because he couldn't get them lit with the matches he had available. Thus, ban lighters.

"...which thought do you find more unsettling, that someone on a plane might have a lighter to more easily ignite a bomb, or that even the TSA thinks that someone on board a plane with you might have a bomb?"
Shouldn't the lesson from the Reid case be "check shoes for bombs, not "FIRE ...  BAD!""

[this made me snort out loud]