My reference is to people attempting to fly with loaded firearms in their carry-on bags, or on their person. These are the people the TSA catches dozens of every week.
http://blog.tsa.gov/
TSA discovered 71 firearms last week in carry-on bags around the nation. Of the 71 firearms discovered, 67 were loaded and 21 had a round chambered.
Every time anybody brings up the phrase "security theater", as if security at airports is unnecessary or useless or a waste of money, I bring up the TSA blog and its amazing display of loaded firearms people continue to try to bring onto airplanes. Until people quit trying to bring loaded firearms onto airplanes - that is to say, loaded firearms on their persons, I don't care about checked bags - until they quit, we'll need the TSA.
21 chambered rounds! That's 21 accidental shootings waiting to happen. There's nothing 'theatrical' about that.
Anyway, that's a thing I do, I'm going to bring up the TSA blog and its parade of doofuses every time anybody uses the phrase "security theater" anywhere, because I'm tired of the TSA being held up as a whipping boy or a scapegoat any time anybody talks about flying.
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Date: 2017-01-20 05:54 pm (UTC)http://blog.tsa.gov/
TSA discovered 71 firearms last week in carry-on bags around the nation. Of the 71 firearms discovered, 67 were loaded and 21 had a round chambered.
Every time anybody brings up the phrase "security theater", as if security at airports is unnecessary or useless or a waste of money, I bring up the TSA blog and its amazing display of loaded firearms people continue to try to bring onto airplanes. Until people quit trying to bring loaded firearms onto airplanes - that is to say, loaded firearms on their persons, I don't care about checked bags - until they quit, we'll need the TSA.
21 chambered rounds! That's 21 accidental shootings waiting to happen. There's nothing 'theatrical' about that.
Anyway, that's a thing I do, I'm going to bring up the TSA blog and its parade of doofuses every time anybody uses the phrase "security theater" anywhere, because I'm tired of the TSA being held up as a whipping boy or a scapegoat any time anybody talks about flying.