On a side note: Isn't it just great that the real reason the TSA wants to let these through is probably sheer laziness on their part? But that's OK. I'll take it.
And as a bonus we get - A union fight! TSA vs Flight Attendants! Huzaah!
Sikhs everywhere rejoice!.......
Is anyone going to hijack a plane with a knife?
Not anymore. The passengers will beat them to death.
I simply don’t go anywhere, that I can’t at least carry my Gerber. I may not always have my gun, but I am never unarmed.
But God forbid we pack a tube of toothpaste or a shampoo bigger than 31/2 ounces.
Where did they come up with a number like 2.36 inches? If they mean 6 cm, then say "6 cm." It's like the 1.6 gallon (6 liter) toilets. It's a weird number because they're really using the Metric system but they don't to say they're using the Metric system.
Now that the air marshalls can carry guns I don’t think knives will ever be able to take down a plane again.
Does that mean that the Fresno Airport will give my husband’s favorite pocket knife (aka “the jaws of life”) confiscated last summer back to him?
First the laser is used to blind an opponent. Then the "stick" is held in the hand with the ends on top of the thumb and pinky fingers and the rest of the fingers on top of the stick. The stick is then forcefully shoved upwards under the nose of the unfortunate opponent. There are many simple techniques using the Yawara that a fairly unskilled person can use to disable an opponent. BTW a pen or like item can also be used in the same manner.
The purpose of TSA is now complete. Time to disband TSA.
I want my P38 can opener back now.
Knives which, I presume, would only be useful for hijacking small airplanes.
...blades no longer than 2.36 inches.
You call that a knife?
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.
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.