Woman with Loaded Gun Stopped by TSA at Washington-Reagan Airport

I contend that if you don’t know where your gun is you don’t need to have a gun. But the second amendment was designed for idiots so we’ll just keep reading articles about idiots who lose track of their guns.

As a modern American teacher at a University, I could not agree with you more. And, if they do not agree with my ideas, theories and culture - DESTROY everything about them. Their job, their reputation, their home and their family structure as they have not come lock stop with my delusions.

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I prefer TSA over the rent-a-guards that used to handle screening.

Exactly when was it that you legally carried a handgun on an airplane in the USA?

"The people" are the militia.

You are right. Every other country just cuts to the chase and does the right thing. They profile people.

No this happens around the world.

Both agencies need some work and need to be overhauled because of the way they are wielding their power. To get rid of them though, is a ludicrous suggestion because they are needed in today's environment. There's too much going on and too many outside threats to just trust that no one is going to try to commit some kind of violent Act or board the aircraft with the wrong intentions. Think of all the number of guns that were intercepted and what might have happened if the TSA had not been there to intercept them. You are entitled to your opinion but I believe it is erroneous one.

TSA is about as worthless if not more worthless than any other federal agency. I was JUST at PHX. LAS and MCO - collectively, what a freaking waste of time. The TSA at LAS was hands down the WORST I have seen in any airport, period. They had an entire bus load of kids from Singapore in tears. They missed their flight and on and on, over a senseless communication issue. TSA needs to NOT have Qualified Immunity (or whatever law) that protects individuals from legal action by passengers who can prove damages (lost flight, revenue, anything). The only more annoying thing was the "Alphabet American" on one of the flights trying to prove its point of its own mental illness the ENTIRE FLIGHT. I did tell it that it was an asshole on my way off the plane at MCO. I was not shocked that it did not have the mental or physical aptitude do defend its own apathetic behaviors.

It actually said (over the speaker system, after 40min waiting for a gate) "if you all don't sit down we will not pull into the gate!" - the fact is, as passengers we could have done the Makarena and the 320 would have pulled into th gate.

The thing is, they go OUT OF THEIR WAY to convict folks in the media. They put out names, employers and on and on and on. For instance, just last week in AZ a story from a city near Orlando hit the news as "Mass shooting in mall" they all ran with it. It was really "Gang member shoots ex girlfriends new gang member boyfriend in the mall".

When a person does have an inadvertent, honest error they are crucified. In my instance, this very week (at Vegas) a small medical device was looked at as if we were terrorists, it was swabbed, it was scanned and rescanned....it was weighed, it was measured, it took a manager.....it was then again threatened to be destroyed, confiscated and on and on...she has flown with this tool a dozen times (or more), even internationally. But Vegas - they are protecting us, right? They are idiots.

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Once again, people down-voting facts. I never knew the aviation community was so hopelessly Leftist.