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However, if someone were to abolish the TSA for being security theater, do you have confidence that people wouldn't immediately start bringing knives? Your poi
by mikestew 2y ago
However, if someone were to abolish the TSA for being security theater, do you have confidence that people wouldn't immediately start bringing knives?
Your point is well-taken, but before 9/11 I probably carried a pocket knife on nearly every flight I took. ‘cuz people carry pocket knives, at least in the Midwest. Throw the little 2.5” blade in the bin before going through the metal detector, pick it up on the way out.
Obviously I don’t do that anymore.
Additionally, you used to get a real steak knife in first class, bigger than the knife I carried. George Carlin even did a bit about that decades ago.
- bubblethink 2y agoAnd not just flights, all government offices that have any security prohibit any knives. I used to have a swiss knife at most times on me, and I went to the social security office to get a card (one of the first gov. offices I visited in the US). They wouldn't allow it, but also wouldn't hold it for you. I had to go out and hide it in the bushes like an idiot.