Posted on 06/12/2018 8:08:04 AM PDT by marktwain
Stupid is, as stupid does.....
Yeah. Mostly oopsies. When you go from driving somewhere to air travel.
My brother travels for work, mostly to oil well sites. He was in anchorage airport and realized his knife was not put into the regular luggage up to the north slope. He stuffed it deep into a potted plant soil and planned to retrieve it a week later. It be gone.
Stupid is a country that takes away ones constitutional rights to self protection while traveling.
Perhaps a nationally recognized CCW permit bill should include carrying on planes and into post offices and schools.
Based on TSA’s success rate in detection tests, there were a thousand that were not detected.
“When you reach those numbers, you start getting into the rare, but bound to happen, category.”
I WOULD NEVER FORGET THAT I HAVE A GUN IN MY BAG WHEN GOING TO AN AIRPORT!!! WHAT IDIOTS!!!
Actually, I’m just kidding, and I’m glad he makes the point regarding statistics. We’re all human. Some of my nastiest arguments regard kids killed in hot cars, killed in the back seat because AIR BAGS require the kids be in the back seats.
I used to drive with my kids in the back seat...one time one of them fell asleep there - I’m listening to the news, into the news, go for a lane change and see her right there sleeping. Scared the crap out of me, as I completely forgot she was there for that time - I’m human.
Anyway, I solved that problem by tinting the windows, removing the air bags, and keeping my kids in the front seat. Never an issue with forgetting...even momentarily.
Soooooo they found 100. They missed ≈300 to 2000.
At least 200 and maybe as many as 2000 guns were carried on planes with zero hijackings.
See? The system works!
“Everyone makes mistakes, no one is perfect. Given enough time and actions, everyone makes an error. An executive is interrupted by a family emergency, just as he has decided to remove the pistol from his briefcase, before a trip. His mind registers that he did, but he did not, and then gets rushed to catch his flight.”
Under similar circumstances I was caught with a speed loader with 5 rounds of 44 spl hollow points in my carry on at the airport. I DID remember to remove the gun before leaving. I must say the TSA was very professional and didn’t make a big deal out of it.
That’s gotta be fake or a setup.
Now there’s a walking, talking lawsuit for harassment if I ever saw one. The TSA Agent may think “It’s a trap!!
Is somebody trying to get me fired? This cannot be a real passenger!! Maybe I’ll just wait till that female TSA is back from her break. We got 100 witnesses with 100 camera-phones.
Ma’am, are you an Undercover Cop? You can’t fool me.”
The one upper right looks like a phaser. Time-traveler mistake?
Probably the riskiest gun to carry is the 8.3 oz. Kel-Tec P-3AT. It’s so small, you notice it no more than a cell phone. I worry that if I did carry it, I wouldn’t think of it under pressure or before going through TSA.
That’s why the best concealed carry for someone who might have to travel is a Desert Eagle .50 or Smith & Wesson 500 Magnum. No one forgets they have one of those. [Okay, maybe I’m not 100% serious, but there is an element of truth.]
TSA keeps the knives, but the guns are taken care of by local jurisdictions.
Sometimes people get them back, lots of times they do not.
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