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TSA: Gun Discoveries In Baggage Up 20% In 2015 Over 2014 (networkworld.com)
coondoggie writes: There was a 20% increase in firearm discoveries at TSA airport checkins from 2014's total of 2,212. It's an astounding number really, but the details get worse. The TSA goes onto say 2,653 firearms were discovered in carry-on bags at checkpoints across the country, averaging more than seven firearms per day. Of those, 2,198 (83%) were loaded. Firearms were intercepted at a total of 236 airports; 12 more airports than last year. Last year a TSA spokesman, when asked of the TSA has a theory on why so many more guns are being brought onboard airlines, Tweeted “The vast majority of passengers just tell law enforcement, ‘I forgot.’ We continue to remind passengers they can check them.”
More people are bringing guns or the TSA is getting better at finding them?
As a European, I continue to be utterly bemused/scared by America's obsession with owning guns. I know all the arguments that usually get trotted out, they just sound like crazy talk to me.
I want a list of atrocities done in your name - Recoil
How many people were intentionally or accidentally killed with a bottle of water last year? How may with guns.
There's the justification for the difference in the severity of the penalty.
By the way - if you get caught with a bottle of anything over 3 ounces, you must forfeit the bottle and it is destroyed (thrown away or dumped out). I suspect that was not the case with the firearms in question.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
You've made your bed, time to enjoy your nap while the adults clean up the mess liberal Democrats made yet again.
I stand amazed at the projection coming from the Right. The Bush Administration spent 8 years nearly ruining this country; starting unnecessary wars, curtailing civil liberties, and implementing irresponsible tax cuts. By the end of his presidency even hardcore Republicans were running away from him and the whole country couldn't wait to elect a different president. Yet you still write sentences like that above and expect to be taken seriously.
"What the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public." -Ray Zalinsky (Tommy Boy)
The funny thing about guns in cities is that they are only loosely related.
Chicago. Last year. Same laws for the entire city. Some zip codes had NO shootings, and others had around 100. What is the difference? Poverty.
No surprise, but zip codes with no shootings have money. Zip codes with dozens of shootings have poverty. So, instead of focusing on the guns, why not focus on the REAL problem?
Does anybody think that lax gun laws would actually create shootings in areas with money? Chicago already HAS strict gun laws, and that does not seem to help much.
And before anybody says "The criminals get their guns from cities with looser laws," compare Chicago with Dallas. About the same size, but Dallas has more lax laws, and less homicide.
"-1 Troll" is the apparently the same as "-1 I disagree with you."