Comments on: Carrying a Gun Into National: Totally Possible.

By: Charles

Charles — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:00:23 +0000

It's interesting that the TSA fired the screener at Reagan National Airport who let the passenger with the gun through security, yet they let police officers beat up passengers and keep their jobs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPNmxZwhMag

By: Charles

Charles — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:59:14 +0000

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:33:40 +0000

Don’t forget that you can take as much liquid on any plane as long as it’s labeled as baby formula or breast milk. This is a completely necessary exception, but the exception undermines the need for any liquid rules at all. A determined terrorist would be able to exploit the holes in the TSA’s security policy if they wanted to, so why make the general public suffer?

By: Jaylin

Jaylin — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:37:36 +0000

I have been individualy searched with the metal detector wand at the airport and was able to pass through security with a lighter and 1 inch keychain swiss army knife in my pockets. On this occasion I had a one-way ticket from Las Vegas to Washington Reagan Airport.

I’m not a terrorist, in fact I love this country very much and with the same spirit I want highlight that the TSA’s hyped up rhetoric, lies, and new rules, are all tools to personally engage the average american into fearful, war-mongering, sheeple*.

*(mindless people that can be herded around any politician, brand name, or shiny object = sheeple)

By: Max

Max — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:23:50 +0000

Back in the days when I was a smoker, I carried my lighter on to every single flight. I just tucked it away in my laptop bag. What if I’d had a shoe bomb or something?

By: Caro

Caro — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:40:41 +0000

Seriously, this whole story is so weird… besides the disturbing apparent incompetence of the TSA, I can’t imagine a situation where I would ever A) be carrying a loaded firearm around when I was travelling, and B) forget that I was carrying said firearm until after I had gone through security.
It’s all so fishy.

By: Carl Weaver

Carl Weaver — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:08:34 +0000

This, the same goon squad that gave me hell in a handbasket over having a tiny, flimsy pocket knife in my grab-and-go bathroom bag. It was a promo from a company I did some work for and I had not done carry-on in a couple years, so I didn’t even think of it. This explanation was not enough for them, though, and I got a stern, albeit short, lecture from a supervisor.

Now they let people carry guns in and then arrest them when they try to come clean.

What an incompetent organization.

By: Don

Don — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:31:56 +0000

Maybe I'm just in the mood to stick it to the media this week, but when I read that article in WaPo yesterday I was pretty torqued by how it ended: "The TSA spokesman said testing shows that the agency has a "very high success rate" in detecting firearms." You'd think that a reputable newspaper might follow up a bit on the claims of an agency that has just failed spectacularly. Like, say, the fact that said claim is a complete and total lie and that TSA's own teams have shown that they fail far more often than they succeed? Or maybe you'd follow up on such a claim because they are an agency that consistently lies about the precautions they take and the mistakes they make? Nah, that would be too much like news reporting.