TSA finds average of 4 guns each day at airports


B2Tall said:
When's the last time a potential hijacker got a gun aboard a US commercial flight??
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Sweet. You respond to a hypothetical that includes guns on board an airliner, and when I respond to your reply, you claim "protection" from my sarcasm because it was the hypothetical, not reality, that you were responding to. So I continue with the hypothetical and now only reality is worthy of your continuing the discourse with honest answers. Interesting. Obfuscate much?

B2Tall said:
Don't like it? Don't fly. It's your option. Nobody is forcing you to put your gun down. They're just telling you to pick one or the other.
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"They" didn't have to *tell* me anything. I would swim to Alaska before I'd fly to vacation there. Or Hawaii or wherever. Fortunately for me, there's plenty of my preferences for vacation spots in the contiguous 48. I would no more submit to illegal searches or unopposed sexual assaults than I would submit to a knock on the door with a voice on the other side saying, "Hi! It's your friendly government official. We're here to confiscate your guns. Open the door please."

Do you fly much B2Tall? If you're married, does your wife fly much? If the answer to either of those questions is "Yes," how safe does it make you feel when either or both of you are subjected to being groped, or being forced to have naked pictures of you taken, or having your friggin' fingernail clippers stolen and sold on eBay?

Yay TSA, if you're into that kind of thing. I'm not.

Blues
 

Does anyone know if they are recording real firearms? Or anything that is restricted and lumping it into firearms?

As localgirl pointed out, the picture has toys and empty casings...

The last time I went on an airplane, I had a .40 cal round find its way into the laptop sleeve of my backpack (i used it hiking a few weeks prior and had a couple extra magazines in that sleeve). Sure enough they dug it out at the airport, no fine or citation, I let them keep it, but I'm sure they recorded it as one of the 4 that day.
 
B2Tall said:
When's the last time a potential hijacker got a gun aboard a US commercial flight??

Don't like it? Don't fly. It's your option. Nobody is forcing you to put your gun down. They're just telling you to pick one or the other.
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Presumably that has not happened in a while. But the argument "well you don't have to fly" is a bit shallow. What if you do indeed have to fly (cause it's a business trip). Not much choice there, really.

Here in NC you can't carry at ABC stores, post offices. Well neither establishments have any alternatives you could go to. Not much choice there either.
 
BluesStringer said:
Yay TSA, if you're into that kind of thing. I'm not.

Blues
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Tell ya what, Blue......how 'bout if every airline had 2 planes going to each destination. On one plane the passengers were subject to current security measures. On the other plane there's no security checks.....no metal detectors, no bag xrays, just total "freedom"....all they do is look at your ticket and say "have a nice flight". What plane are you going to get on?? What plane are you going to put your family on?? It's a rhetorical question. Don't make yourself look like a spiteful child (or complete idiot) by saying that latter.

I chuckled at your earlier response concerning the hijacker being the only one on the plane with a gun. I suppose in your world (where guns can be brought on planes), hijackers only work alone and they wait patiently while the 20 or 30 or so gun-packing passengers decide which one of them is going to shoot the perp so as to avoid an all-out firefight, yes??. Do the passengers ask him to stand elsewhere so that the likelyhood of the innocent bystanders being hit is reduced?? Of course this is all predicated on the hijacker being alone. Reasonable since they rarely, if ever, work in groups....right?? There's really no chance that there might be 3 or 4 of them scattered around the cabin, correct? After all, that would complicate things in "your world", and we all know you live in a land of utter simplicity where you know everything.

I'll stay in the current world where BGs can't get guns on planes.
 
BluesStringer said:
Sweet. You respond to a hypothetical that includes guns on board an airliner, and when I respond to your reply, you claim "protection" from my sarcasm because it was the hypothetical, not reality, that you were responding to.
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The hypothetical situation was created by someone who believes guns should be allowed on planes. My response indicated that I support the current policies regarding such things. I should have spelled that out just for you. I didn't think you would be confused so easily.

BluesStringer said:
Obfuscate much?
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Nope. No need to when you do an excellent job of misinterpreting anything and everything in order to fit your ever changing song-and-dance.



BluesStringer said:
"They" didn't have to *tell* me anything. I would swim to Alaska before I'd fly to vacation there. Or Hawaii or wherever. Fortunately for me, there's plenty of my preferences for vacation spots in the contiguous 48. I would no more submit to illegal searches or unopposed sexual assaults than I would submit to a knock on the door with a voice on the other side saying, "Hi! It's your friendly government official. We're here to confiscate your guns. Open the door please."
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You hobby seems to be making yourself into some sort of self-righteous 2A martyr. Good job. Keep up the good work.
 
Hey, where can I find these gropeful (attractive) TSA agents (underwear models)? It's (ahem) for a friend of mine.
 
NavyLCDR said:
So... "your friend" likes guys in uniform?
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You know, I searched in vain for a picture to post with my last comment. Apparently, men in uniform and men with guns pin-ups range from "Not batting for YOUR team, Sister!" To seriously ridiculous and unsafe for the given situation. Case in point, a picture looking to be a shot-up Afghanistan town, with a shirtless soldier with his drawers dropped and the mag of his AR-15 strategically covering his wedding tackle. I guess it's supposed to be sexy, but I can't stop thinking, some Taliban guy is going to shoot your twig and berries off!
 
B2Tall said:
BluesStringer said:
"They" didn't have to *tell* me anything. I would swim to Alaska before I'd fly to vacation there. Or Hawaii or wherever. Fortunately for me, there's plenty of my preferences for vacation spots in the contiguous 48. I would no more submit to illegal searches or unopposed sexual assaults than I would submit to a knock on the door with a voice on the other side saying, "Hi! It's your friendly government official. We're here to confiscate your guns. Open the door please."
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You hobby seems to be making yourself into some sort of self-righteous 2A martyr. Good job. Keep up the good work.
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And you seem to have a real problem with people who use their own powers of discernment to decide how best to run their own lives. In one example, you said that my making a decision to depart a friend's home rather than allow them to disarm me was somehow not treating their rights with the same respect as I demand of my own. You went on to say that it made me a crybaby for taking that stand. Weird.

In this example I simply state that I won't fly because I vehemently disagree with voluntarily relinquishing my rights under the 4th, 5th and 6th Amendments to a bunch of TSA goons, and now I'm trying to make myself out as a "2A martyr?"

Here's a newsflash for you B2Tall - I go to Huntsville International Airport every single work-day as part of my job. I am armed as part of my job. I am not a cop. I open carry on the job. I am waved through every security check-point and escorted into the terminal areas by TSA (or sometimes Huntsville PD) to my destinations, where I do my business and return via the same route, never once having to relinquish my weapon.

You can probably figure out what I do for a living. It's not that tough, but my point is, I interface with TSA every day that I work, and have for the last 5 years. I've seen many an agent come and go, and most couldn't tell you what right the 2A even references, much less the 4th, 5th or 6th Amendments, which it is their job to violate every day that they work.

I never flew much before making the decision to not fly under the current circumstances, so I haven't really sacrificed anything in making that decision, much less martyred myself for any cause. I simply made a personal decision, which you seem to consider worthy of your scorn and mockery. It's interesting that you would put "stirrer of the pot" next to your nick. A more accurate, fitting description would be "cantankerous bloviating prick."

Blues
 
Blues, you are OBVIOUSLY missing the entire point of this thread, which is, do you have pictures of yourself on the job, partially clothed, and doing something women find terribly sexy, like ironing some shirts or something?
 
localgirl said:
Blues, you are OBVIOUSLY missing the entire point of this thread, which is, do you have pictures of yourself on the job, partially clothed, and doing something women find terribly sexy, like ironing some shirts or something?
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BluesStringer said:
And you seem to have a real problem with people........
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Well, Blue......I'm not sure how the airline industry has gotten along all these years without the firepower of you and you ilk. Commercial air travel has been soooooo dangerous since the fed banned law-abiding Rambos such as yourself from carrying guns aboard planes. I can completely understand why you're so reluctant to fly what with the rampant skyjacking in this country.....
 
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