<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Dudster:
That's complete BS. I've been through German airports 12 times since 9/11 (including two airports yesterday) and the level of armed personnel is much higher now in most US airports than it is in German airports (at least FRA and MUC, the two largest).</font>
No need to get over excited. In my visits to German airports there have always been teams of military looking people with guns in hand roaming around the airport.
In my visits to US airports, there have been two or three National Guard troops at each security checkpoint, and I have seen few of them roaming the airport.
Regardless, the Germans and a lot of other countries have had people roaming the airports with automatic weapons for lots of years. They certainly have a longer history and larger number of gun-hours in the airports than we have and I'm not familiar with any incidents happening.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by terenz -
There's a built-in safe guard of sorts right there. There are others who will (or should) stop the potential shooter by lethal meansif necessary. </font>
terenz- I don't know if I'm implying something here that you didn't, are you implying that in the German airports if one person went crazy someone would stop him or her, but in the US there isn't such a safeguard?
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