Cstone, I applaud you for your well worded and thought out comments and arguments. My apologies for getting the ATF in the wrong department; I knew the right answer, but wrote down the wrong one for some reason. I'm getting old, I guess.

I don't have the answers to your questions. I don't even have any good ideas. I just believe TSA was the wrong way in which to solve the issue and now that they are alive and existing, the monster will want to expand, and I do not want that (I say this as a gov't employee and LEO).

I do not believe that the next terrorist threat will be a repeat of 9/11 with aircraft. It will be something else. My thoughts fall to commerce and if the terrorists effectively put fear into American lives by taking away the security of commerce, then we will again experience shockwaves throughout our economy.

I've always thought that 5-10 suicide bombers, similar to what is experienced in Iraq or Afghanistan, in busy markets, would suffice to make that occur. Our markets? Malls. What would be the effect if there were 10 bombers placed in 10 different malls (say the food courts on a Saturday). What would be the effect? Would we be afraid to congregate in large numbers? Would we put metal detectors and security at the doors? Would people be afraid to shop? What devastation would that do to our economy?