[1rudeboy]

We need to start thinking about taking the opposite approach and allow passengers to arm themselves.

I sympathize with your opinion, but I fail to see how this would prevent liquid explosives from being smuggled onto an airplane.

[Doohickey]

It doesn't. But then, neither do TSA's new edicts. Think I can't smuggle a liquid through security under these new rules?

Depending on how long these rules stay in place, we may be witnessing the death of the American airline industry. TSA has gone from making it simply inconvenient to fly to actually making it uncomfortable. I'm sick and tired of being treated like a suspect just because I want to fly on an airplane, all because the goobermint refuses to do the right thing and profile passengers.