Originally Posted by
law dawg
Agreed. Which comes back to the question at hand - what is the mission of the TSA?
In those few billion posts, it has been mentioned many times, including by me, that the TSA's primary mission is to make the casual traveler
feel safer.
The only reason the TSA is still around is because airlines, airports and The G can't find a way to protect airlines and airports from liability should another plane fall out of the sky.
Originally Posted by
law dawg
I've read a few billion posts here that the TSA should be looking for prohibited weapons, period. Well, LEOs already have prohibited weapons so there's no need to search them. That's what happened. So should the TSA be searching for other things as well or not?
Look at precedent. The TSA loves to tout all the "other" findings they get at checkpoints, and they do it under the guise of looking for something else.
To answer your question, yes they should. I've long felt that if something else were to happen, it's going to be an inside job. Someone who doesn't get screened is going to exploit a loophole, and one of these days the consequences is going to be measured by a body count rather than measuring grams.
Originally Posted by
law dawg
BTW, that "loophole" applies to all LEOs, not just FAMs.
And those LEOs should be screened as well.