Showing posts with label TSA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TSA. Show all posts

Sunday, February 23, 2014

Letter in the Gainesville Times on gun control

The usual sort of letter.

We have a terrible gun shortage in our society. This shortage causes murders and mass murders in places like schools, bars, and churches. The only way to stop these tragic gun deaths, is to have more guns, more gun rights, and more people with guns.

The tragedy isn't with too few guns. It's with too many guns. So many that a 9 year boy and an 11 year old boy found one in a shed.

They say that Landry Oliver, a student at Marlow Elementary, was shot with a .22-caliber rifle as he and an 11-year-old neighbor where playing in Oliver's backyard. The Savannah Morning News reports (http://bit.ly/1cBi5eQ ) that the rifle had been in a shed.

Left in a shed. Wanna tell me that the owner was irresponsible and not a typical gun owner?

I don't believe that.

On a single day in December of 2012, 3 people were arrested at the Atlanta airport in a period of a few hours. Three people who forgot something. What was the something? They forgot where they kept their gun.

Could have been in a shed, maybe? Where children could find it?

Well, if you're so damned stupid as to walk through federal metal detector with a hidden gun ... maybe you would mindlessly leave your gun on the hood of your car. In a shed. In a potted plant. Disassembled with the parts hidden inside three stuffed toys?

More guns will mean more gun deaths.

More stories on dumb gun owners trying to smuggle their gun through airports post 9/11.

Flight http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/09/flight-attendant-tries-to-bring-loaded-gun-through-airport-security/ carries gun through airport security.

Over 1100 guns seized in carry on luggage in 2012.

When carrying a hidden weapon becomes as routine as having sunglasses, we're going to find more gun tragedies, not fewer.

Total number of gun found by the TSA security in 2012 was 1,549. Roughly 85% of the gun were loaded.

Monday, February 17, 2014

Georgia to give away carry on guns at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport

Despite a poll showing Georgia voters do not want more gun on airplanes, in bars, in confessionals, or libraries, the GOP is considering a carry on gun law. Also to be know as the Right to Carry On law, all rednecks who declare their Right to Carry to airlines when buying tickets will no longer be stopped by federal agents.

The federal agency tasked with carrying out providing effective and efficient security for passenger and freight transportation in the United States, TSA, has denied Georgia gun owners the right to pass through security with a gun since it was formed in 2001.

Through a spokesmodel, the TSA said, "We ain't lettin' no redneck pack more than a suitcase through our checkpoints. We had have our first death in the line of duty in the shooting spree in LA. One dead agent is enough."

An unofficial spokesmodel to the Goobernator was glad to give a statement on a subject other than ethics.

"The sovereign State of Georgia has the Constitutional Rights given by the Founders to grant a Get Out of Jail Free card to anyone caught with a gun in Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport. It's clearly stated in the Bill of Rights that the federal government shall not infringe on the right to bear arms. That includes on airplanes and crowded public places."

Rumors abound on street corners that the new law is in retaliation for the partial guilty verdict in Florida in the so called Gangster Music shooting.

The north Florida jury has convicted a man of three counts of attempted murder for opening fire on a car of black teenagers during an argument over loud music. One teenager was killed in the shooting but the jury ignored the death in its verdict. Apparently, killing someone while attempting to kill them isn't murder anymore.

Only Georgia's street corner wisdom could twist that into a carry on gun law. Must have something to do with that phrase in the Constitution, 'Activist judges shall not abridge a white mans right to kill black teenagers.'