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TSA allows some sharp objects
Posted by David Hardy · 30 November 2005 01:15 PM
CNN reports that TSA will Friday announce a rule allowing scissors up to 4" long, and screwdrivers up to 7" long, on airplanes. "
Now if they'd only accept my rule for preventing hijackings:
1. Pilots get .45s.
2. Passengers are encouraged to carry knives. BIG knives.
Any hijacker will be stuck in a plane with 100+ p.o.ed travellers whipping out bowies and K-bars, and a flight crew just waiting for the door to open.
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They should do as Archie Bunker suggested 30 years ago. Give each passenger a gun as they board and collect them as they deplane. Who wants to hijack a plane when you know everyone on board is armed? In some weird way it makes a lot of sense.
Let us all carry firearms on board.
A diffuse threat, like terrorism, requires a diffuse response, like an armed citizenry.