New From the Bad Ideas Dept: TSA Union wants to arm agents

[BlasterBob]

Better have the Postal Service provide armed guards in their post offices. Never know when some alleged "nut" customer (who has a concealed permit) might bring a concealed weapon in.......oh wait a minute. The armed guards will probably be guarding the employees so they don't shoot up the place.

[BushMasterBoy]

[battle_sight_zero]

this would be horrible. i have only flown 3 times since 1998. BUT, remember they are now using the Gestapo I mean TSA for school dances, bus stations and Im sure soon crosswalks and everywhere else. Arming these people who help us go full blown NAZI police state. I just picture the movie " The Great Escape" with Nazis checking papers at the train depot, then shooting the escapee in the back. fuck that. I would feel safer if they did away with the tsa and outlawed muslims.

TSA is already advising and evaluating school districts on security and emergency planning across the country to include the front range. No big fan fare has been made about this cooperation but it is taking place.

[Jer]

So let me get this straight, when a person who's attacked that's a government employee they want to arm themselves for protection. When a person is attacked who isn't employed by the government the government's solution is to strip them of all means of protecting themselves. I got that about right?

[Justin]

Though TSA would claim otherwise, the outcome of this event is a perfect example of a successful response to an attempted mass shooting.


Shortly after the perp made his intentions known, he was smoked by an armed responder.


Arming the TSA agents likely wouldn't have changed the outcome.

[buffalobo]

So let me get this straight, when a person who's attacked that's a government employee they want to arm themselves for protection. When a person is attacked who isn't employed by the government the government's solution is to strip them of all means of protecting themselves. I got that about right?

You got it. Difference is that for us it's about the children.

[buffalobo]

And guns are bad.

[sellersm]

Though TSA would claim otherwise, the outcome of this event is a perfect example of a successful response to an attempted mass shooting.


Shortly after the perp made his intentions known, he was smoked by an armed responder.


Arming the TSA agents likely wouldn't have changed the outcome.

Shhhh, don't confuse the issue with facts.

[cstone]

Did anyone read the article? Some member of a government union urges the creation of a special class of TSA employees who would be armed.

The TSA, DHS, Congress, and just about everyone else who would have to be involved in making something like that happen absolutely oppose arming screeners. It won't happen.

Next scary issue?

[asmo]

The TSA, DHS, Congress, and just about everyone else who would have to be involved in making something like that happen absolutely oppose arming screeners. It won't happen.

It *will* happen, eventually.