as one honest gun owner accidentally discovered in 2010<\/a>. The TSA simply misses firearms in bags and on people, with no special effort made to conceal them from the scanners.<\/p>\nWith a 95% miss rate and 6,737 guns detected, the number of guns they missed was approximately 128,000. This means that on average, one to two flights per day (out of 87,000 flights) has a gun on it that the TSA missed. That\u2019s not an insane number when we consider that the United States has over 20,000,000 CCW permit holders, an unknown number of people carrying under permitless carry laws and an unknowable number of criminals carrying guns for nefarious purposes.<\/p>\n
But, despite the fact that, on average, at least one gun unlawfully flies on a plane daily in the United States, we don\u2019t often hear of hijackings. In fact, a Google News search doesn\u2019t have any recent results of such stories, with most of them focusing on historical hijackings or 9\/11.<\/p>\n
Why aren\u2019t we seeing a rash of hijackings as concealed carry got extremely popular during the last two decades? There are two big reasons.<\/p>\n
First off, most of the actual improvements in security didn\u2019t happen at the security checkpoints. The cockpits of airliners were beefed up, and some pilots were armed. The law enforcement and intelligence communities got serious about finding organized plots like 9\/11. Air Marshals were put on flights, and a criminal would never know whether their flight had either an armed marshal or an armed pilot.<\/p>\n
The other big reason is that most guns brought on a plane are brought on accidentally. Most people carrying a gun do so for good reasons, like self defense, and not intent to commit criminal acts like hijacking an aircraft. So, nobody taking a gun on a plane accidentally even tries to do that.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s also true that on Amtrak trains there is almost never any kind of a security screening. And, despite the hyperventilations about guns and planes, guns are almost never used in a criminal act on the trains, despite many people going by the \u201cconcealed means concealed\u201d rule, including criminals with bad intentions.<\/p>\n
The TSA\u2019s Taxpayer-Funded Security Theater Needs To End<\/h3>\n
Given that guns are already on planes and that they\u2019re on trains in even greater numbers, and bad things aren\u2019t happening all the time, it\u2019s pretty clear that banning guns from planes is pointless. Many people believe that we\u2019re being kept safe by these measures, but we just aren\u2019t. The numbers don\u2019t lie.<\/p>\n
So, we should get rid of the TSA, get rid of the security checkpoints, and let individual airlines decide how they want to handle things. If an individual airline wants to ban guns, wand passengers, and rifle through our luggage, they should do that at their own expense and not at taxpayer expense. They can also live with their decision on that in the market, where the more intrusive airlines will find themselves getting less business than the less intrusive ones.<\/p>\n
One thing\u2019s for sure, nobody likes this expensive and pointless security theater, even if many people wrongly think it helps.<\/p>\n
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