Help me understand whether I should be facepalming…
Are you seriously suggesting that guns should just be allowed on the plane, because terrorists are too clever to take guns on planes?
If not, then you are misreading me (I’d suggest it might be because of blanket assumptions about the TSA and anyone who defends it). All guns need to be taken away, even if the holder seems like a solid dude. You can’t take guns away exclusively from terrorists any more than you can wear a helmet only when you’re going to crash.
Again, criticizing the photo stream only makes sense if you start from the presumption that the TSA are a bunch of jerks.
The public asks if they do anything meaningful. They show that they confiscate real weapons, some of them disguised to demonstrate that they are capable of doing so and frequently do. The TSA critic consequently finds a technicality that makes this totally rational behavior into more evidence of TSA’s evil.
The assumption that a terrorist would immediately open fire at a terminal if he or she thought he or she would be caught seems informed by Hollywood caricatures. If there is a good avenue for sneaking weapons on a plane, a smart terrorist will consider it – especially if failure is risk free, as the apparent lack of indictments shows.
