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Perhaps there is something wrong with the way in which the TSA administers its programs.
Duh -- ya think?? They dont' do anything else well why would this one thing be any different?
“Would you like to be a fighter pilot?” Considering that many commercial pilots are and have been fighter pilots it’s natural that many would answer that question with a “Yes.” According to Mackett, the TSA concluded that these pilots “had overly aggressive personalities and disqualified them from the program.”
Nice... Hey, did you serve in the United States military in a combat MOS?
Yep, sure did.
Cool, did you carry huge amounts of very lethal ordnance and never abuse the trust so placed in you and did you have 20 mm cannons on your plane?
Yep, sure did.
Did you sometimes even carry the most deadly weapons known to mankind such as nuclear weapons?
Yep, sure did.
And now you just want to cary this little .40 caliber handgun which we will make you lock up in 3-4 stupid, accident waiting to happen ways that would be almost impossible to use to bring down an aircraft unless you killed the co-pilot and yourself.
Yep, sure do.
Yeah, well we, the bureaucrats of TSA who have never done anything more dangerous in our lives than clip a hangnail, think you are too unstable. Instead, we are going to take a bunch of formerly $7.50 per hour security guards, who turned into $35,000/yr TSA screeners overnight and fast track them to make them Air Marshalls thereby allowing them to carry a gun in all 50 states and on aircraft even though they have never, ever in their entire work history have had to face 1/10 the amount of situtional stress you face on a typical stormy day at work.
Jackass3s. I suddenly have an overwhelming desire to wear grey and carry a rifle.
