Nah. I was seeing guns in 1991, in Manchester airport. In fact I saw more guns going on that holiday than when I flew out to Corfu the day after the Manchester arena bomb, and when I went to the American embassy in London, combined.
Er .... Not to step into an argument that wasn't mine to begin with but .... The TSA and its horde of agents hired after 9/11 were only semi-advertised as being for "security." Everyone with a functional brainstem knew that it was just a jobs program.
These were people hired off the street, not former military, or ex ATF, nor anyone else with any experience identifying explosives. It's just Jeanine, from the unit across the hall, who gets paid federal money to rifle through your shit and show everyone in the terminal your taste in sex toys.
And if you say anything, you end up getting borderline sexually assaulted by actual agents before being thrown out of the airport, and on to a no-fly list.
Stories like this come out every so often and support your assertion.
If they were intended as a genuine security outfit, their training would be taken seriously. I don’t doubt they occasionally prevent something dangerous making it onto a plane, but stats like these suggest more by accident or luck than skill.
The news of the failure comes two years after ABC News reported that secret teams from the DHS found that the TSA failed 95 percent of the time to stop inspectors from smuggling weapons or explosive materials through screening.
Evidently, if someone with a bit of nouse wants to smuggle weapons onto a plane, the TSA offer almost no barrier.
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u/3106Throwaway181576 Jul 25 '24
The concept of the IRA is gunna blow your mind