Patting down my 90-year old mother in her wheelchair was unnecessary, as was requiring my friend to remove the leg brace she wears because she was partially paralyzed following a stroke. We all have stories of their insensitivity but independent thinking is not allowed evidently, and they’re mostly feel good measures. The next terrorist is not going through an airport security checkpoint, it will be something so sophisticated we can’t even imagine it.
Fluoride in the drinking water to sap our manly juices.
Local police are called
the police may allow the offender to stow the gun in his car or his checked luggage, and then board the plane, or may confiscate the weapon and make an arrest. The T.S.A. independently levies fines from $250 up to $11,000.
I thought of a way while enduring a 12 hour delay at Houston international terminal B two weeks ago. The small airplanes United uses between Cincinnati and Houston don’t accommodate normal carry-on bags. Baggage people tag and pack carry on bags and then pull them at the destination offering easy access to insert things into bags w/o anyone the wiser. At Houston international Terminal B there aren’t jet ways for boarding. There’s access from the tarmac to the planes. That’s assuming bad guys want to use planes as weapons.
Seems like you already answered your own question. And I agree with your answer.
Is that the George Bush Intercontinental Airport where they make annoying announcements all day and night warning against making comments about security and being arrested if you do? The terrorists will not makes jokes, they will just quietly and lethally act.
I’ll second putting him on the no-fly list. He’s already been banned from entering the UK.
I think we should demand to see his birth certificate.
Now there’s something I never expected to see – TPM using a photo credited to Alex Jones (a still from one of his videos, I suspect).
I vote for door number 2.
That is funny. May I borrow the joke?
I think you’ve confused “Dulles” with “Dallas”. Either that or they’ve moved Dulles International Airport to Texas while I wasn’t looking.
I believe it’s a giant mutant woolly bear caterpillar
Another example of the premium citizenship enjoyed by the privileged class in this country.
Isn’t Farah some sort of Arabic or “Persian” name?
So, trying to sneak a gun on a plane is a class 1 misdemeanor? And I had to take my shoes off for how many years?
They’re out of fashion, but a snub-nose is small, light, and easy to conceal, it’s a full-grown cartridge compared to the .380, revolvers are very reliable, and the longer double-action trigger pull makes the gun a bit safer than, say, a Glock. The safety aspect may or may not be important to a person who can forget that he has a loaded weapon rattling around among his belongings as he goes through an inspection point at an airport.
I wonder if his excuse will be “oops, I forgot to take it out of the duffle bag I ALWAYS take with me” or perhaps “I refuse to give up my right to be armed when and where I want to be and TSA and airline regulations be damned.”
Anyone know if this call 1 Misdom. carries required jail time?
Good point. Do “responsible” gun owners forget that they have their weapons on them?
The gun folks that are aware whether their gun is loaded and where they left it don’t worry me. It’s all the dumb fucks that don’t seem to have a clue. There ought to be some kind of one and done or at most 3 strikes your out law for these dumb gun safety mistakes, after which you could never own a gun again.