Originally Posted by
Caradoc
You do realize that you're talking about handing guns to personnel who, as a group, have proven entirely incapable of remembering that photography is NOT prohibited at the checkpoint, right?
Actually, that's almost the point I'm trying to make.
Nobody's going to "hand guns" to anyone. Any TSO who wants to be a federal LEO is going to have to demonstrate that they're capable of handling all that's entailed --- and that's going to eliminate a lot of the folks who can't seem to understand even the basics of how TSA is supposed to work. I would guess that 90% of TSOs wouldn't qualify to be LEOs. (Just a guess, mind you; I have absolutely no basis for that guess.)