Originally Posted by FliesWay2Much
Yep -- and muskets worked spectacularly well in the War of 1812.
Tell you what, I take the musket and you take nothing. Want to bet on the winner? Tell you what yet again, I'll take the musket and 5 well-trained, experienced men with muskets and you take 100 without them and without training. Want to bet on who will win?
An airport checkpoint is like my home burgler alarm system. The only bad guys you're deterring are the amateurs. But, this isn't the strategic deterrence business, it's public relations. If the TSA actually caught a real terrorist, I'd bet my mortgage it would be all over the news, and everyone from Bush on down would be taking credit for it.
Correct. But I am talking about actually stopping/deterring an incident and not knowing about it at all. Say a team comes to the airport but for some reason or another were spooked and scrubed the mission Who would know? Maybe they scubb it because the TSA confiscated some of the weapons. Any reason would do, but we would never know unless we took someone into custody and then they broke and admitted the plot.