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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Knives which, I presume, would only be useful for hijacking small airplanes.
...blades no longer than 2.36 inches.
You call that a knife?
> 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.
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.
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.
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.
tpaste and other items look identical to C4 on the xray.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
The fact that this “announcement” came out only a few days after sequestration and the impending CR is NOT a coincidence.
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.
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