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It's effectively zero, so yes. Taking the gun statistic in their blog [0]. Let's say they prevented a total of 5,000 noteworthy things ( that includes their gun
by Nadya 11y ago
It's effectively zero, so yes. Taking the gun statistic in their blog [0]. Let's say they prevented a total of 5,000 noteworthy things ( that includes their gun statistic). I think that's a reasonable estimate given their figures.
0.000007656967% of the time they did something. In reality it's half of that. In reality of actual danger being present it's even lower than half of that. I'm talking near 7.6e^-8 in rarity.
The odds of being stuck by lightning is higher than the TSA ensuring anyone's safety.
[0] http://blog.tsa.gov/2015/01/tsa-2014-year-in-review.html http://blog.tsa.gov/2015/01/tsa-2014-year-in-review.html
- mkskm 11y agoWouldn't those all have been caught by a metal detector?
- tonyarkles 11y agoA fun thing to look at is where those happened. Texas, Georgia, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Tennessee. I did a quick search on each of these states, and they all have very liberal firearms rules. What are the odds that most of these were quite innocent mistakes? E.g. you always carry, and you forgot to leave it at home locked up. I'm Canadian, but I have a similar story. I was travelling with my mother, and my backpack was swabbed and X-Rayed at security. No problems. It wasn't until I got home and was unpacking that I realized I had a bottle of aerosol nitroglycerine (!) in my carry-on! My mother's got a heart condition and I was carrying around a spare canister just in case something happened.