Originally Posted by
petaluma1
The TSA is making passengers standing in line sitting ducks for this kind of an attack. Not that I believe that it will happen here, but one or two intelligent individuals could possibly carry something like this out at one of our airports.
IIRC, it is legal to open-carry airside in PHX. There have been a couple incidents when an individual exercised his rights to carry at the airport, people got upset, the cops were called - just two different guys exercising their rights, nothing more.
However...what would be the reaction if someone walked into one of these deliberately-overcrowded terminals and fired a gun into the air? It wouldn't take a lot of intelligence (quite the reverse, actually) to really create a mess. It wouldn't even have to be deliberate: it could be someone (maybe even an LE or TSO) who 'forgot' he was carrying until he dropped his gun and it accidentally fired.
The risk is always going to be there, but deliberately creating huge high-risk backups to make a political point is beyond shameful.