Should We Put Police Officers At TSA Airport Lines?
Perhaps you recall not long ago there was a shooting at the TSA line at Los Angeles international Airport.
They quickly evacuated the building, everyone ran everywhere, and the shooter went to go find more TSA officers to shoot, apparently he had some sort of vendetta against that agency.
Well now that the investigation has been done, the experts have come up with some ideas to make sure this doesn't happen again.
Let's go ahead and talk about this for second shall we? ABC News had an interesting article on March 26, 2014 titled; "TSA wants police at checkpoints after LAX shooting," and this completely bothers me and our think tank for a number of reasons; 1.
) TSA Employees are impersonal and rude, treating people like dirt 2.
) TSA now has a union and too much power in the politic - we should not be so hasty to meet their demands.
3.
) Police cost money - lots of money, plus legacy costs, we don't need to turn our International Airports into mini-police states.
4.
) An orchestrated surprise attack would easily overwhelm a single police officer so quickly it would be a bad joke.
Why did the individual go after the TSA officer? Why are TSA officers so rude and impersonal? Why do we allow a new agency like that to form a public employee union to tell us what to do, aren't they supposed to work for us to protect our safety? Why are they demanding that we protect their safety? If they can't protect themselves, why are they there, and how can it possibly protect us? Yes, these are lots of questions, and it seems like the whole thing is becoming absurd.
Now they want policemen, armed, to guard them to make sure nothing happens to the TSA officers, so they can do their job to protect us.
Really? If you're going to have armed police officers, why not just use them, and close the TSA airport security completely? Let the police officers do the work, why do we need more agencies? It seems to me that this overbearing police state attitude is compromised by employee unions on top of the belligerent attitude that you get when you give someone a badge and a little authority.
No, the shooter had no business doing what he did, no one can condone that sort of activity, but maybe we need to rethink all this.
That's all I'm saying here, and I dare to say it because it's true, and because it's also on the minds of every American citizen who had heard about that story.
Let's consider all this and think on it.
They quickly evacuated the building, everyone ran everywhere, and the shooter went to go find more TSA officers to shoot, apparently he had some sort of vendetta against that agency.
Well now that the investigation has been done, the experts have come up with some ideas to make sure this doesn't happen again.
Let's go ahead and talk about this for second shall we? ABC News had an interesting article on March 26, 2014 titled; "TSA wants police at checkpoints after LAX shooting," and this completely bothers me and our think tank for a number of reasons; 1.
) TSA Employees are impersonal and rude, treating people like dirt 2.
) TSA now has a union and too much power in the politic - we should not be so hasty to meet their demands.
3.
) Police cost money - lots of money, plus legacy costs, we don't need to turn our International Airports into mini-police states.
4.
) An orchestrated surprise attack would easily overwhelm a single police officer so quickly it would be a bad joke.
Why did the individual go after the TSA officer? Why are TSA officers so rude and impersonal? Why do we allow a new agency like that to form a public employee union to tell us what to do, aren't they supposed to work for us to protect our safety? Why are they demanding that we protect their safety? If they can't protect themselves, why are they there, and how can it possibly protect us? Yes, these are lots of questions, and it seems like the whole thing is becoming absurd.
Now they want policemen, armed, to guard them to make sure nothing happens to the TSA officers, so they can do their job to protect us.
Really? If you're going to have armed police officers, why not just use them, and close the TSA airport security completely? Let the police officers do the work, why do we need more agencies? It seems to me that this overbearing police state attitude is compromised by employee unions on top of the belligerent attitude that you get when you give someone a badge and a little authority.
No, the shooter had no business doing what he did, no one can condone that sort of activity, but maybe we need to rethink all this.
That's all I'm saying here, and I dare to say it because it's true, and because it's also on the minds of every American citizen who had heard about that story.
Let's consider all this and think on it.
