Originally Posted by
Caradoc
At what cost?
How many passengers would be violated by *armed* thugs to prove a point?
Or, it's entirely possible that TSOs that are properly trained as LEOs might discover that "crap, we really don't have the authority to act like thugs". At least, they'd discover how little training a TSO gets versus what a LEO gets.
Sure, it's no guarantee of anything. There are "rogue cops" just like there are "rogue TSOs". But that's why I offered the gedankenexperiment.