[Bitwhacker]

I saw a quote the other day that nailed the airport security issue, I'll see if I can find it, but the point was approximately this:

The idiocy of the TSA's 'security' is that it is focused on keeping the wrong things off airplanes, the rationale being that if bad people get on an airplane without weapons, they can't bring down the plane. The Israelis focus on keeping the wrong people off airplanes, the rationale being that if bad people don't get on a plane in the first place, they will never have a chance to bring down the plane.

The TSA is a monument to political correctness, because our current government can't bring itself to entertain the thought of doing Israeli-style profiling, so even children, nuns and the elderly get special scrutiny to prove that we are not singling out a particlular type of individual.

;-))

[Jemian]

And they are as stupid as the people who say that guns kill or SUVs cause accidents.

It is the people who kill, not their tools.

Anything, almost, can be turned into a weapon. A shoelace, for example, can be used to strangle someone. Pencils, plastic forks from the dinner tray, many things can easily be turned into weapons.