Posted on 11/17/2010 11:53:37 AM PST by blessu
hell with it, i say put two well armed and fully outfitted marines on every flight. anyone causes trouble send in the marines. uuuh rah.
Why a “guard”?
9/11 was a Second Amendment failure...IMHO....
28,000 commercial airline flights that take to the skies on an average day in the United States
VERSUS 67,000 TSA employees = 2 per flight - lay off the rest
Someone bringing a bomb onto a plane could detonate it without the guard ever noticing or acting.
Unless the guard paces the aisle, there is little chance of him seeing the person with the bomb in time to do anything about it.
If the guard does pace the aisles, well, we know who the guard is, don’t we? The bomber only has to wait till the guard has passed.
Hand out pretzels and tasers when you board the plane and take up the tasers when you leave the plane. Anybody jumps up and yells “Allah Akbar” gets about a trillion volts.
I’d rather trust the American citizen to keep us safe.
Five of our airports have private screeners.
Correction: (tsa.gov)
The Screening Partnership Program, also known as SPP or Opt-Out, is a unique approach to providing security screening services for air passengers and baggage. Under the program, an airport operator may apply to have security screening conducted by personnel from a qualified private contractor working under Federal oversight.
The program was designed to meet the requirement of the “opt-out” provision established by the Aviation and Transportation Security Act of 2001, or ATSA. Airport operators have been able to apply to SPP to use private screeners since November 2004. Private contractor screeners are currently in place at nine airports across the country, combining private-sector operational expertise with TSA’s technology, experience and resources.
Was just pointing out the absurdity of a TSA bureaucracy
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