Originally Posted by
TSORon
Actually, we find on the average of 10 firearms (loaded and unloaded) each week at the checkpoints. We also find clubs, knives, and other types of weapons to me measured only in metric tons. Hundreds of thousands, every month. Hazardous materials? Also measured in tons. Explosives? Not tons certainly, but far more than anyone here might imagine.
Oh we find them sir, every minute of every hour of every day.
Good, if these were possessed by the terrorists you are claiming to stop.
BTW, how many of the possessors of these materials were arrested or taken into custody for their acts of terrorism?
Because until they are, you have not caught a terrorist, you have caught otherwise law-abiding citizens that have inadvertently forgotten to remove something from their carry on that you consider potentially dangerous just because it crosses the threshold of a commercial aircraft, things that are perfectly legal in most places except the airport.