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Originally Posted by sonofzeus
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OT Q: Do you dig the Sig?
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Originally Posted by jkhuggins
(Post 21723908)
Not entirely true. A responsible person entrusted with a firearm will want to be trained in how to use that firearm.
However, the converse is not true; training someone in how to use a firearm does not make them a responsible person. Agreed. However, this wouldn't be the first TSA over-reaction to an incredibly unlikely threat. |
STOP over reacting!! Bad things happen everywhere. TSA is to secure the flights, and they do that in an unfriendly manor as it is. Adding guns won't improve the process of getting through the airport. If all passengers had been armed, someone might have shot the guy sooner, or open fire on more TSA seeing the way we are treated. Don't want bad stuff to happen to you? Don't go outside or anywhere near the planet
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Originally Posted by jkhuggins
(Post 21723908)
However, this wouldn't be the first TSA over-reaction to an incredibly unlikely threat.
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If TSA gets guns, they'll be the ones doing the shooting. We'd be getting weekly reports of passengers getting shot by TSA.
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Originally Posted by Caradoc
(Post 21724659)
Except, of course, when they're screening for drugs, sequentially-numbered checks, or large amounts of cash - all of which they do despite any claims they don't.
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Originally Posted by DeafBlonde
(Post 21725393)
...and cupcakes! You forgot cupcakes...
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Originally Posted by Boggie Dog
(Post 21724142)
The focus on the AR-15 I think is just a distraction. The guy could have been just as dangerous and deadly, or more so, with a Remington 870. A gun in the hands of a person intent on doing harm is a bad situation no matter what type of weapon used.
The issue that has to be addressed is what steps can be taken to prevent a recurrence of this type of event. I suggest that this type of act is almost impossible to prevent. What can be done is to take steps to minimize the amount of damage done. It is a bad deal all the way around but going overboard on prevention is just as bad. |
In a word, the answer is no! There are a lot of reasons why.
1. Anyone over age 40 wont be allowed. 2. There are TSA officers that have never handled a firearm. 3. There are too many people in a close space in checkpoint screening. 4. The expense of training and arming them is too high. 5. The liability is too high. 6. There are TSA officers that dont want to be armed. 7. There are TSA officers that would quit if it came down to that. 8. The qualification process would be to hard to implement. etc |
Originally Posted by eyecue
(Post 21726481)
In a word, the answer is no! There are a lot of reasons why.
1. Anyone over age 40 wont be allowed. 2. There are TSA officers that have never handled a firearm. 3. There are too many people in a close space in checkpoint screening. 4. The expense of training and arming them is too high. 5. The liability is too high. 6. There are TSA officers that dont want to be armed. 7. There are TSA officers that would quit if it came down to that. 8. The qualification process would be to hard to implement. etc |
Hell no!
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I wouldn't trust them to pack squirt guns, let alone real guns. :td:
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Hmmm.... felons are usually barred from possessing firearms. Sexual assault is usually deemed/prosecuted as a felony...
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Originally Posted by Boggie Dog
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I don't disagree with you but why do you say that over 40's wouldn't be allowed?
For some career intelligence positions, much the same is true for entry age maximums -- although the intel agencies have been able to basically get around that for special "skills" needs far more than federal law enforcement employers for ordinary civilian LE purposes. |
The first NEW call for armed TSA...
http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/04/politi...html?hpt=hp_t1 Apparently they have a new mandate, to protect the screening area. "We want to make sure we are doing everything possible to secure screening areas" -David Cox (national president of the American Federation of Government Employees) |
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