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Oh I'm not talking about competence. I'm saying they are your betters. Ask anyone of them, they will tell you. Especially the ones who put an ink stamp on your printed at home boarding pass. That saves us all from the zomg terrorists!Quote:
Originally Posted by ray1970
The HS prom thing was said partially tongue in cheek. There will be an instance there were they start to use them to secure special events and force them on us in ways other than air travel. After all, it's for our safety!Quote:
Originally Posted by cstone
Within 30 days of a successful mass casualty event at a major airport, we will see armed guards in TSA uniforms at airport security checkpoints and entrances.Quote:
Originally Posted by cstone
In 2002, Congress originally authorized an independent, armed police force to be a part of TSA. About thirty people were hired and FLETC was gearing up an academy to train them as the initial group that would provide armed LE presence at all federalized airports. When PANYNJ, Atlanta PD, Chicago PD, along with all of the various airport authorities around the country realized that the federal government was moving to replace the local LE with federal LE, the local Congressional delegations stepped up and put an immediate stop to it.
The City and County of Denver, LA, PANYNJ, etc... have far too much at stake to allow any real take over of such a valuable local asset like an international airport by the federal government. If the federal government, i.e. Congress, couldn't pull it off right after 9/11, it is highly unlikely that any Congressional delegations will take that chance of losing just to increase federal control by utilizing an almost universally disliked agency like the TSA.
TSA reimburses local police departments for their presence and response at most airports. This arrangements allows the federal government the ability to have some control over local LE, but still maintains the political necessity of keeping the airport under the local jurisdiction.
Do you think Denver PD or Chicago PD, or any other local PD would just stand by and do nothing if the federal government was going to put armed screeners on checkpoints? Want to guess which union (local police or TSA screeners) has more political clout?
LAX Airport Police members and their union are already well on their way to getting increased funding to go back to having an officer present whenever the checkpoint is open.
When there is another successful mass casualty event at a major airport, I predict massive, overt local LE presence, beefed up exterior LE presence, and if available the local National Guard will be posted. Most of this stuff is predictable and there are many historical precedents for this type of response. After a few weeks or a couple of months at most, things will return to how they were before the event.
I predict that more airports will continue to move away from federal screeners and adopt contract screeners. This is especially true for smaller airports, but there are many probable future events which could speed this private screening option transition. One of these events would be a serious push to arm screeners. Local politicians will not let that happen.
Just my $.02, but I am currently staying at a Holiday Inn Express, so I might just know what I'm talking about [Coffee]
Exactly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jer
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Originally Posted by Jer
It is not tongue in cheek.
As stated in an earlier post TSA is advising and evaluating some school districts on security issues. This is going on all over the country including here in Colorado. There is little or no press on this but it is taking place.
I can't wait for the TSA to get armed. I can just see one of their drooling window-lickers shooting up a concourse because grandma wouldn't let him feel her up.
TSA aren't officers, they are agents, kinda like travel agents except TSA agents can't spell "travel agent".
What kind of people does the TSA hire?
http://travel.yahoo.com/blogs/compas...012317876.html
Yes, let's give guns to a bunch of theives.Quote:
You can add one more hassle to the list when traveling: thieves making off with items in your checked bags. And, there’s not much you can do about it.
One traveler found his expensive camera, missing from his checked luggage, for sale on eBay. Another reported $160,000 in jewelry gone from her bag. And, a 12-year-old boy reportedly had $265 stolen in birthday money. None of them got the items or money back.
Are you joking? You STILL trust politicians at ANY level after what has happened and what is currently happening? Tell me you don't believe the statement that you just made because if you do then I gave you entirely too much credit. Not only will they 'allow' it to happen but they will usher it in the form of writing or sponsoring the bill if it furthers their political career in the eye of their party. Just you wait, once the topic comes up one party will take one side and the other party will take the other (since that's all they do anymore regardless of topic) and then during a swing in power at some point it will happen and most Americans won't even know it happened let alone care. Then one day we'll all wake up wondering how we got to the point where we are. Right now is how, wake the fuck up people! Politicians will eat their young for money & power so an 'outdated piece of paper' means less than nothing to them.Quote:
Originally Posted by cstone
Politicians won't let it happen because it does nothing for them and in fact takes power away from those same politicians and gives it to a bureaucracy they don't have much control over.
I don't expect politicians to do things that are right or good for the people they represent. I expect politicians to represent their own self interest. They just don't benefit from giving control over their local airport to another federal agency.
They going to man up and protect themselves from us when we've had enough of their bullshit?Quote:
Originally Posted by cstone
We live in a nation where the politicians have addicted many citizens to government services. The people have willingly allowed this to happen. Somewhere along the way, too many people have forgotten that "Nothing in Life is Free." The majority of Americans would give up everything in exchange for comfort. If the politicians promise enough comfort, they have nothing to worry about from the masses.
One day the house of cards will collapse, but I don't see it happening any time soon.
I didn't think the mentally handicapped could carry firearms. I have ZERO good to say about TSA
Well, to revive this fine thread, I thought I would share the bill recently introduced by Georgia Congressman Hank Johnson (see Navy capsizing island due to too many personnel assigned video). Not only won't TSA be armed, in true progressive idiocy, Congressman Johnson and 10 or so of his stellar colleagues have sponsored legislation making all airports around the country "gun free zones."
http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th/...bill/3484/text
Obviously no one mentioned to these fine legislators that the Peoples Republic of California and the Los Angeles Oblast have already seen fit to make the possession of firearms inside of LAX illegal for anyone not professional enough to handle this here Glock pistol.
Back to the original point of the thread. This government will not arm TSA screeners. There is a better chance that the Department of Homeland Security or the Department of Transportation would hire 20,000 veterans and have them begin patrolling federalized airports in Guardian Angel outfits.
Be safe.
so you cannot carry your firearm if you are at the airport to:
(A) Air travel ``(B) Meeting another individual. ``(C) Picking up cargo. ``(D) Employment at the airport.
So i can carry my firearm at the airport if I am only there to run around naked? What if I am at the airport to look at the planes on the runway, or just there to count the ceiling tile, cause thats my thing.
As long as i am not there for those other four things a gun is okey dokey.