The TSA strikes again!

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   wildernessposted 10 years ago

   Article in my local paper - in a rare report on what the TSA is actually accomplishing, they found another loaded weapon in carry on luggage in the little Boise, Idaho airport.  The weapon had 10 rounds loaded , including one in the chamber.  Boise police were notified, who confiscated the weapon and cited the passenger.  He will have to pay a penalty to the TSA, possibly several thousand dollars.
   
   This is the fifth incident this year, and the second this week.  Ten loaded weapons were found in 2013. 
   
   The moral?  Don't complain when you are searched.  Don't complain when a wheelchair, child's bag or bulky clothing (Depends) is searched.  Loaded weapons are still coming into the airports with the intent of carrying them onto the plane - perhaps the one you are seated in.

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   Zelkiiroposted 10 years ago

   Communist trash! I'll take my gun onto a plane if I want to! Because this is 'Murica! And in 'Murica, I take my guns wherever I want!

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      wildernessposted 10 years agoin reply to this

      Then I will too!  It will be the OK corral in the sky!

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         Zelkiiroposted 10 years agoin reply to this

         You know what it's time for...? DOGFIGHTS PEW PEW PEW
         
         KA-BLOWEY
         
         PEW PEW PEW
         
         KER-PLOWEY

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            wildernessposted 10 years agoin reply to this

            Hey!  Not fair!  I can't make such neat-o sounds.

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      Craig Suitsposted 10 years agoin reply to this

      Brilliant Zelkiiro...Lets hope one day you don't forget your coveted weapon and you piss someone off that hasn't forgot theirs....

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   Emile Rposted 10 years ago

   This is a somewhat public school mentality. Intent to harm goes a long way in determining if an action is dangerous. Finding that some idiot attempted to circumvent the rules is not tantamount to proving that we are somehow safer because the idiot wasn't thinking through how his actions might be perceived.
   
   I haven't heard anything about the case. Was he, indeed, a terrorist? Was there evidence of intent to remove the gun from the carry on during the flight?
   
   I'm not arguing against the value of TSA regulations. Just attempting to point out that every infraction documented is not evidence of a disaster thwarted.

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      wildernessposted 10 years agoin reply to this

      When every one of those trying to sneak weapons on board claim innocence of intentional wrongdoing, how can you tell which is a terrorist? 
      
      As far as  intent to remove the gun from the carry on during the flight - who knows?  It never got on board, which was probably a good thing.  There isn't a person in this country that thinks it is still legal to carry a weapon on board a plane, so it was an obvious attempt to circumvent the law.

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   psycheskinnerposted 10 years ago

   I don't want a civilian with a gun on the plane with me. I don't care if they are technically "a terrorist" or not.

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      wildernessposted 10 years agoin reply to this

      +1 That's how I feel, too.  Self protection, a hunter, an Olympic triathalete - it doesn't matter.  Check the guns into the belly of the plane, where they canNOT be used.

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