Oh Great, Texas Makes the Stoopid List. Twice.
Okay, if somebody asked you to name the five airports in the United States where the most guns are confiscated, you’d think a Texas airport would certainly make the list. But, twice?
Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport were second and third only to Atlanta when it comes to the number of loaded or chambered handguns confiscated at TSA checkpoints during 2013, according to the Medill National Security Journalism Initiative.
I hope you’re not wearing your good socks because this part will blow them off.
According the Medill report, the number of guns found has been increasing steadily since 2010, when just over 1,120 were discovered.
We gun toting states just keep getting dumber by the year.
Now you know as well as I do that they’re only catching about half the people with guns, which makes me get paranoid on airplanes.
I would like to apologize for Texas not because we have too damn many guns but because we have too damn many guns in the hands of dog dump dumb people.
This morning when I woke up I saw a picture of Dan Patrick on the front of an old newspaper. Gag. Then I thought of Louie Hisself, and a few other jewels, like Cornyn, whose ad is misleading and lying about Texas because he wants to work for us. Ha. Why do we let Texas be such an embarrassment?
1I know Texans have a right to be dumber than a stump.
I know they also have a right to carry loaded guns.
I just wish they wouldn’t do both at the same time.
2And I bet the most common excuse for trying to carry a gun onto an airplane, which any person with an IQ above dirt knows is illegal, is: “I forgot that was in there!” Which once again makes us question whether the IQ is above dirt, and makes the sane among us very nervous.
3The commenters pointed out one of the bystanders caught in crossfire between robbers and an armed citizen was a twenty year old girl–and that her family has a right to sue the gun guy in civil court for her death…that right was mourned by another gun guy…so stupid, she would not have lost her life, except for the wanna be hero.
4That airplanes are where people think they could pull out a gun and be a hero is so scary, so insane, that I can’t even put it in words–the stupidity! Have they not heard of pressurized cabins? That small hole and the window blowing out–good lord, it boggles the mind…I’m sending my monthly donation to turn your state blue–but a “getting bigger part of me” is starting to think in terms of kicking the south out of the union…had wind chill factor of -27 on the Tarmac coming home to NY after a balmy 75 in Ca for Christmas…I would have been afraid of my fellow passengers if I thought they were carrying!
Have flown only a few times in the past three years after a break of about 20. Good flights. So crowded that I don’t know how anyone could draw down about anything! It was like living in the bottom of my purse!
And yet they still keep trying. Sigh . . .
5And one of my friends kept saying the other day, “The reason people have guns is because it makes them feel safer.” Etc etc. You know about the placebo effect? How about we get folks to keep a gun under the bed without any bullets in it, just for the placebo effect?
684% of those confiscated guns were loaded and 1 in 3 of those had a bullet in the chamber! That means the next edition of Fun with Guns could be: Air Tragedy.
7Flying is scary to begin with, but knowing there are so many freaking morons loaded for bear trying to board just sickens me. Looks like my next trip cross country will be by rail.
Ralph,tools that feel the need to carry artillery don’t need to think. Got gun ergo problems solved. Eventually their brains will cease to function,similar to their appendix and tail stumps. Hope the rest of ‘murricans can survive until then.
8OT-Ms JJ-I was wondering how beta-testing went for yours and Glen Maxey’s site you wrote about Jan. 3rd? I did not hear or I missed the results. Muchas gracias.
9@epo – Suggestion. If you click on the “Tell Juanita” at the top of the page, you can send your question directly to her. She has a better chance to see it and you to get a quick response.
10Every so often I’ll see a local news item about someone being arrested for bringing a handgun into security or having it in their carry-on. If all these people are being arrested, convicted and punished, you’d think we would hear a lot more about it. I wonder what’s actually happening.
111828 guns a year, divided by 365 days a year works out to 5 guns found every day on airline passengers.
I would be interested to see what charges are brought against 5 random “whoops I forgot that was in there” gun confiscations, versus 5 random “whoops I forgot that was in there” pot confiscations at the airports.
Personally, I’d rather take my chances flying on a plane with the forgetful pot guy than the forgetful gun guy. Besides, the pot guy probably has the more believable story about his lapse in memory.
12If you can “forget” your gun is in your briefcase, what good will it do you when you “need” it to defend yourself?
Besides, did you remember to bring along the papers you need for this trip? Are they in the briefcase? How did they get there without you seeing that Sig or Glock or whatever the heck it is you’re hauling around? Do you normally carry a boatload of stuff in your briefcase you don’t know about just in case? (Would that include a spare brain?)
13I’m curious – if you forget that you have a gun, what happens when you’re attacked? Doesn’t the attacker take your gun away?
14@RepubAnon, @Elizabeth
I wish Col Jeff Cooper could have written on this subject. So far as I can tell he did not.
Col Cooper trained using color codes. In condition White one is unaware and unprepared to defend oneself. Your reaction to something life threatening might be “Oh! This can’t happen to me.”
Col Cooper never wrote of being both armed and in condition White. It likely never occurred to him that some one would be so inattentive if they truly believed their environment contained credible threats.
This likely means for the people who “forget” they are carrying, there are no threats in their environment and therefore they have no need to carry, in spite of their insistence on exercising this 2A right.
My personal position is that if you dedicate yourself to avoidance, deterrence, and de-escalation, a personal piece is unnecessary.
15As the days grow longer one may be inclined to see the glass half full rather than half empty. Giving it my best shot, we look at lot better if you consider only those guns with rounds chambered. Of the top ten airports with guns confiscated DFW and Bush fall all the way to a tie for seventh in guns with chambered rounds. Way to go Texas, my state, right or wrong!
16Take a gun to airport mandatory 1 year, $10,000 fine, Automatic placement on no fly list, weapon confiscated and destroyed, loss right to own weapon just like the rest of mental incompetents.
No exceptions. No prosecutorial or enforcement discrection. Applies to members of Government, Congress critters, senators, Executive branche members, Boards, committees etc.
No Badge with specific and enumerated reason to have weapon on plane then straight to jail.
No Bond while case is being heard.
Forgetting you have a weapon ( most common excuse) is prima facie evidence of negligence.
Should help eliminate some of these worse abuses.
17@Ken……and I think you’re being generous.
18@Ken:
Delusional is what you are, Ken. There’s not a chance in hell they’ll ever get around to making sensible laws about firearms until the last GAY, “Illegal”, uppity woman, black or atheist and all of the other RILLY, RILLY DANJRUS PEOPLE are locked up or wiped out!
19So Texas only made it to second and third? Who was first? And what will Texas do in order to make it to #1 next time?
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