So some crazy person stuns the flight attendant and maybe two or three others. He/she will still get subdued and trussed up by the rest of the passengers, just like what happened to the Shoe and Underwear bombers.

Like you said, annoyance, or at most an “after-lunch participatory show.”

Rindan for secretary of DHS!

Image of Secretary Rindan:

Yeah, right. Because most people hit the range a couple-three hours a week to keep their skills up. Because most people go through a few cans of break-free a month keeping their weapons clean and clear.  Because most people, when discharging a weapon in a pressurized cabin know that one slip = potentially everyone dead, so they only fire when they’re sure they have a clean shot.

Sorry, but your cowboy fantasy doesn’t hold up to reality. All it would do is make the cabin erupt in an orgy of gunfire, and anyone who didn’t get hit would die of asphyxiation/blunt force trama when the cabin decompressed explosively.

That’s why terrorists will always fail because they forget the little details.

2.  Inert grenades have the bottom drilled out of them.  Fairly easy to spot.  But I suppose one could easily hide that from view.  However what does it say of the TSA that something checked could still be suspected of being a bomb after having passed through their screening procedures?

3.  An inert training grenade is highly dangerous if thrown.  Those things weigh a TON.  Like you brain someone with that and they will likely be dead.  Seriously, I wonder how many people have been killed or injured in war just by actually being pegged by one of those things not even the explosive component of their attack.

4.  I still they should be allowed to be checked.  They are not.  It’s kind of silly.

“Ladies and gentlemen: for those of you over 18, who have selected not to be served alcohol, you will find a stun stick below your tray table. It is good for one shot. When you bought your ticket, you accepted responsibility for any assault charges and retaliations related to its use.  You may keep and/or use it, for a $100 surcharge, payable on landing.

Remember our staff are the only ones trained in the use of our defibrillators: so you really don’t want to zap them.

If the guy next to you is a jerk, remember that merely taking out the stun stick and handling it thoughtfully is completely free of charge.

If the plane gets blown up by terrorists, you used your stun stick wrong.

Enjoy your flight.”

Of course, while delightful in theory, this idea would mean that on some flights, any middle-eastern people would spend most of the flight unconscious, repeatedly zapped by paranoid morons.

America has allowed the shots to be called by the lowest common denominator of bravery and brains. It’s pathetic.

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The problem isn’t the scary terrorist.  The problem are fucking cowards like you.  I have to have my tax money pissed away and get double plus freedom fondles because pieces of shit like  you can’t contain your cowardice.  

I have a better idea.  Instead of me having to get felt up by TSA agents, getting my fourth and fifth amendments rights pissed on, and paying for the privileged, how about cowards like you just not fucking fly?  If the thought of a one in a few million chance of someone blowing up your airplane causes  your bowels to loosen, instead of imposing your coward’s solutions of crawling on your knees begging the government to molest you and everyone else, how about you just fuck off and act like a cowered quietly in your house?  Also, don’t vote.

The reason why we are wasting money on homeland security and the TSA is because when cowards like the parent mew to the government to protect them from something that is roughly as dangerous as a shark attack, we don’t stand up and shout them down as the cowards they are.  Don’t let these cowards dominate the conversation.  When someone acts like a baby over a one in a few million chance of death, call them out for being fucking cowards.

America is pathetic these days.  Just think, a little over half a century ago Americans volunteered to storm beach heads where every other person was killed or wounded.  Now we soil ourselves at very thought of “scary” terrorist that kill fewer Americans than lightening strikes.  Pathetic.

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