Originally Posted by
puddinhead
The TSA screens about 1.8 million passengers a day (TSA website). In 11 years that's over 7 billion served.
Odds of someone killing a TSA agent 1:7,000,000,000. The odds of being killed by a meteor in your lifetime are more likely.
I would argue that the odds of being shot are even much less than that. The shooter in this case wasn't a passenger on a plane (though some reports suggest he was holding a boarding pass); there are janitors, visitors to the airport, ticketing agents, taxi drivers, LEOs, restaurant workers, delivery personnel, airline pilots, flight attendants, ground personnel, and TSA agents themselves.
It's much more dangerous working in a printshop than working at the airport. In my hometown there was this in 2012:
Shooting.
At least five people were killed when a man opened fire at a Minneapolis business and then turned the gun on himself, police said Friday.
I would suggest that we arm all workers at printshops before we arm TSA agents.