I bet my own life and that of my loved ones every time I drive, fly, go out in public, etc. Life is risky. You don't lessen those risks in any substantial way for me at all.

We have all seen plenty of botched security and plain stupidity being passed off as "security." We have all seen "security" based on "the sky is falling" Henny Penny stuff. I think we can wisely resist your invitation to just trust you without question. No thanks.

Your phony baloney stance that you are privy to oh, such important data (like a flying FAM would be in the loop - don't think so) is nothing more than a rhetorical device to dismiss others.

If there really was capability to sow terrorism in this country, we would see lot's and lot's and lot's of it. It is not possible to stop it. We cannot defend everything and everywhere. Look at the Israeli experience - a situation where a force that has more control over an occupied people than perhaps anywhere else in the world. And they cannot stop dedicated low tech terrorism.

If there was real capability to commit terrorist acts in this country, we would see sporting events (where security "experts" such as yourself now bunch people up at the entrances making a much more inviting target than the spread out crowds inside the stadia) attacked. We would see buses attacked, shopping malls attacked, financial offices attacked, post offices attacked, police stations and police cars attacked. We would see Amtrak trains derailed along the thousands and thousands of miles of tracks that we cannot guard. We would see bridges, tunnels, etc. blown.

There is no reason to believe that airports and airplanes are so very special that they would be the single and only target of terrorists. That's plain stupid.

Maybe you shoot well, maybe not. Maybe you'll merely be the next superbly trained and highly informed FAM to leave your weapon in an airport lav or to get b*tch slapped by a passenger who won't turn off her cell phone. I doubt that I'll be reading of any real protection afforded by you or your lot anytime soon.

As to your original question: you are a bad bet placed in the wrong venue.

As for assuming that I am a classroom teacher or that what I do can be replaced by "home schooling": a mighty leap to a wrong conclusion based on thin data - but then that is a well documented speciality of "security" "experts."

As Ted Williams said, "If you don't think too good, then don't think too much."

Best wishes,

Teacher49