• Tamo240@programming.dev
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    5 months ago

    The goal is not to stop the people in the queue being attacked, its to stop someone boarding a plane with the means to hijack it

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      5 months ago

      They fail gloriously at at that too.

      Whenever they get tested the red teams manage to smuggle in everything needed to hijiack a plane plus a kitchen sink.

      The few times that terrorists tried to board planes, they made it through security and were caught by other passengers.

    • Liz@midwest.social
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      5 months ago

      Yeah, and you don’t need the TSA for that. Just do as they already do: lock the cockpit.

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        5 months ago

        Little known fact: many of the pilots behind those locked doors are armed as well.

        The Flight Deck Officer program allows pilots to volunteer to become deputized Air Marshals. They receive training and are issued a badge and a gun.

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            5 months ago

            Police officers are mentally ill? Interesting take.

            Also, we’re talking about pilots that you are already trusting with you’re life and the lives of hundreds of people with you. If they were mentally ill they could just crash the plane and kill you.

            These guys are genuinely invested in maintaining the safety of human lives.

            • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
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              5 months ago

              They should continue focusing on that instead of gun politics and their farcical contrived scenarios to have guns on a civil plane.