TSA is useless, except for keeping people scared.

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27. Ad hominem nice.

So basing policy on actual numbers and a rational evaluation of our security needs is an "extreme libertarian view" in your world. Good to know.


The number of terrorist attacks in the United States was dropping long before 9/11, which was a statistical outlier. The TSA and Homeland Security have tried to take credit for the continuing drop in American terrorist activity since their formation, but a longer look at the numbers makes it clear that they've had virtually no effect at all. Their creation was a knee jerk reaction to a tragic fluke (no different than the pointless wars they spawned, in all honesty).

And the overall number of guns being seized is irrelevant to the question of security, as the TSA themselves have already conceded that a far larger number of weapons were flowing through our airports prior to the TSA's formation and that the number of those weapons being used in crimes on aircraft is largely unchanged. They can show that they're "doing something" with those numbers, but one thing that they're NOT doing is making you safer.