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TSA allows knives on planes, flight attendants union calls decision 'dangerous'
FoxNews.com ^ | 3-5-2013 | FoxNews.com

Posted on 03/05/2013 11:17:24 AM PST by servo1969

Edited on 03/05/2013 11:28:36 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

The Transportation Security Administration announced Tuesday that U.S. airline passengers will soon be allowed to carry small knives in their carry-on bags, a move that prompted swift condemnation from a flight attendants union.

The union for Southwest Airlines flight attendants called the decision "dangerous" and "designed to make the lives of TSA staff easier, but not make flights safer."


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; flashlight; guncontrol; knife; knives; plane; secondamendment; tsa; tsaknives; weapon; weapons
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To: servo1969
"passengers will soon be allowed to carry small knives in their carry-on bags"

Knives which, I presume, would only be useful for hijacking small airplanes.

21 posted on 03/05/2013 12:04:51 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: servo1969

...blades no longer than 2.36 inches.

You call that a knife?


22 posted on 03/05/2013 12:06:44 PM PST by jjones9853
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To: ansel12

> That would forbid entrance into some VA hospitals

I didn’t know that.
I had 2 pocket knives on me during my last VA visit.


23 posted on 03/05/2013 12:07:44 PM PST by BuffaloJack (Gun Control is the Key to totalitarianism and genocide.)
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To: ctdonath2

Yep...but when was the last time a gov’t agency was disbanded. Not “transferred” or absorbed by another agency but actually disbanded?

I don’t think it has EVER happened. Heck, we still have the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Wars have been over for 100+ years.


24 posted on 03/05/2013 12:08:22 PM PST by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: servo1969
Oh goody, something else to make the flight attendance even more happy and allow me to enjoy my cattle car ride I mean flight more...
25 posted on 03/05/2013 12:08:57 PM PST by taildragger (( Tighten the 5 point harness and brace for Impact Freepers, ya know it's coming..... ))
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To: BuffaloJack

I edc two knives also, but in one of our VAs locally we go through a metal detector, are scanned, and weapons and knives forbidden.


26 posted on 03/05/2013 12:13:51 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney is a longtime supporter of homosexualizing the Boy Scouts (and the military).)
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To: jjones9853

Could you *imagine* if some terrorist stood up and tried to take over a plane with a box cutter these days? OH - IT WOULD BE ON LIKE DONKEY KONG! Beat down city.

Now imagine the same thing with a six inch knife. A few more people might get cut, but that terrorist would go DOWN.


27 posted on 03/05/2013 12:15:18 PM PST by bolobaby
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To: surrey

tpaste and other items look identical to C4 on the xray.


28 posted on 03/05/2013 12:30:36 PM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: servo1969

I cut myself in the kitchen kinda often, but it’s made me basically unafraid of anyone holding a knife.

Someone steps up to me in a dark alley with a blade and I’m like, “Go ahead, punk. I made fruit salad last night. With lemon juice.”


29 posted on 03/05/2013 12:37:24 PM PST by Noamie
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To: servo1969

Problem here is consistent rules. They will let you get on with it some places and then on your way home take it from you so basically you lose it.


30 posted on 03/05/2013 12:41:46 PM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: clamper1797

A cord bracelet, a cord necklace or a shoe lace, a bolo or any large chunky or sharp pointed jewelry, a tactical pen, a “knife” pen, mace in a lipstick container or pen, etc. Some are perfectly legal but others will get you in trouble if they’re noticed.


31 posted on 03/05/2013 1:35:53 PM PST by bgill
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To: afraidfortherepublic
I was at a travel show and picked up a few freebies given out as promotions. I liked one key chain which came with a blade smaller than a finger nail file. Set off the scanner and a few questions later, I was on a flight but the TSA kept the goodie.
32 posted on 03/05/2013 1:35:53 PM PST by ConservativeStatement (Obama is the "Disco Duck" president. A no-substance novelty that reached number one.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Yes they give you a can of soda on the plane, or a small bottle of wine or a hundred other things which can be used as a weapon.

Security at airports is all for show.


33 posted on 03/05/2013 2:04:16 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: servo1969

Will spend $10,000 to get my private pilot’s license, or ride in the back of a stinky Greyhound bus with 150 Muslim jihadists, or spend $5 per gallon in gas driving somewhere before I get on another commercial flight again. The TSA will not grope me, nor disarm me. I choose not to comply.


34 posted on 03/05/2013 3:31:57 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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To: servo1969

The fact that this “announcement” came out only a few days after sequestration and the impending CR is NOT a coincidence.


35 posted on 03/05/2013 7:58:45 PM PST by WeatherGuy
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To: servo1969
This is an unacceptable risk.

I plan to smuggle 5 ounces of hand sanitizer onto my next flight, in case I need to use it to defend myself from a knife-wielding terrorist.

36 posted on 03/06/2013 8:04:09 AM PST by Notary Sojac (Ut veniant omnes)
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