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by sneak 2603 days ago
Considering that the TSA misses more than two thirds of weapons passing through their checkpoints (they have improved - it used to be 95%), we can safely say that TSA does indeed make delays for the hell of it. They are not increasing air safety in any meaningful capacity.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelgoldstein/2017/11/09/tsa...
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cheerlessbog 2603 days ago
To be fair they don't need to find them all just enough to deter.
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sneak 2603 days ago
That’s not accurate. If two people carry weapons onto planes and one gets caught and the other hijacks the plane and flies it into a building, well - the TSA has failed in their task.

The sole reason this hasn’t happened in a while is that nobody is really making any efforts to mass murder with airplanes, TSA or no TSA.

We should probably just shut it down and save the money at this point.

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