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You make the same "honest mistake" and you get locked up for five to ten.
Honestly I find him incredibly lucky because recently Ive seen US diplomats trying to actually have talks with China and under a different administration (cough cough this guys own party) this guy could become a bargining chip or PR example of US disrespect. HK could have made this a lot harder for him.
Makes a person wonder what deal was struck behind the scenes to make this go quietly away.
He discovered the weapon during the flight between San Francisco and Hong Kong, it said.
So he made it passed TSA with an entire firearm.
Not just that, but he doesn't keep track of where his firearms are.
For an honest mistake, so much had to go wrong.
The TSA has a roughly 80% failure rate on detecting weapons. Some tests rate it up to 95%. There's a reason it's called security theater.
They couldn't find this man's gun, but they confiscated my Leatherman when my bags got bumped from checked to carry-on.
Made my wife dump out hot sauce she forgot to put in her checked luggage.
We need to abolish the TSA in its current form. Billions spent inconveniencing travelers with unreasonable and at times invasive searches.
You know what we haven't done? Caught a terrorist.
He's a certified fucking moron. Feels the need to carry, can't carry responsibly, advocates and votes for other irresponsible assholes to carry.
think this is hyperbole? https://jalopnik.com/youve-got-to-stop-keeping-your-gun-in-your-car-1850929717#:~:text=Thieves%20will%20sweep%20neighborhoods%2C%20parking,t%20seem%20to%20be%20stopping.
It's much worse than you guess.
TSA is a fake security service that serves absolutely no purpose. It is security theater performed by arrogant police academy rejects.
Erasing the TSA would save us 10 billion a year. Erase the worthless TSA already, for fuck's sake.
Oh it serves a purpose. Sucking billions of dollars away from programs that actually do some good.
this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2023
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