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Drill Here, Drill Now |
The last time I saw long guns at Houston airports was when the national guard was providing security post 9/11. Are y'all seeing this in your airport? I'm not against officers armed with AR-15s at airports (quite the opposite), but my BS meter is going off that there is no specific threat.
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| Freethinker |
I agree. Interesting development. I saw police officers with automatic weapons at European airports decades ago, and I always wondered since when we would see it here. It took much longer than I expected. ► 6.4/93.6 “Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.” — Plato | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
Well, anyone who's flown through Europe knows that officers with long guns is a very common sight. I'm all for it frankly. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan "Once there was only dark. If you ask me, light is winning." ~Rust Cohle | |||
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Sound and Fury |
I've seen DFW airport police standing around with MP5s. But not real recently. "I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here." -- Ronald Reagan, Farewell Address, Jan. 11, 1989 Si vis pacem para bellum There are none so blind as those who refuse to see. Feeding Trolls Since 1995 | |||
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| hello darkness my old friend  |
And when was the last time a specific threat was justified? In America we always wait for the casualties and then spend several years trying to blame someone. Why not an AR15 armed officer at the airport. Long hallways need to be covered by rifles not handguns. Good on them for playing good actors in the constant security theater. | |||
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Oriental Redneck |
Holiday traffic about to kick into high gear. Terrorism on the rise. That's why. Why such a big deal? They're not randomly stopping and frisking you. Q | |||
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| Do No Harm, Do Know Harm |
Charlotte airport has had this for over a year. It's the new norm. Knowing what one is talking about is widely admired but not strictly required here. Although sometimes distracting, there is often a certain entertainment value to this easy standard. -JALLEN "All I need is a WAR ON DRUGS reference and I got myself a police thread BINGO." -jljones | |||
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| Freethinker |
Not everywhere by any means. The display of heavy (heavier) weapons can still be a public relations issue in some jurisdictions. The more people see it, though, the easier it will be to implement it everywhere. ► 6.4/93.6 “Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.” — Plato | |||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
Unless they are shooting at you, who cares? | |||
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Just saw his at Nashville Airport last week. It wasn't all the officers though. | |||
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| I have not yet begun to procrastinate |
This is what a lightbulb flickering on looks like. -------- After the game, the King and the pawn go into the same box. | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
Were their weapons loaded? I flew into BWI about two weeks after 9/11. They had the Guard walking around the airport for security...with unloaded weapons.  ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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| Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
France was the same...soldiers walking around with no magazines in their rifles. That is no longer the case today. Don't know about the officers in Houston though. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan "Once there was only dark. If you ask me, light is winning." ~Rust Cohle | |||
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For now, they are called "carbine AR-15". | |||
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Quit staring at my wife's Butt |
saw some security officers at the Orlando airport carring them a few years back. | |||
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| Lucky to be Irish |
I think we were arriving or leaving LAX last year and while standing in the baggage claim area my wife tapped me and said, "Look. Those dudes are carrying ARs." She was referring to 4 LEOs of some sort, all armed with them." (Pretty sure she used "dudes" because we were in the LA area.)  | |||
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| Too old to run, too mean to quit! |
When I flew back here from Idaho a few weeks ago, I saw NO armed security at the Spokane airport. They had about 30 TSA "agents", none armed on the odark30 shift. Elk There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour) "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. " -Thomas Jefferson "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville FBHO!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower  |
If something happened at that airport, some of you guys would be saying "Why weren't the police better armed?" Seeing a police officer carrying a rifle in an airport these days, I wouldn't bat an eye, wouldn't feel the need to question the reason. Perhaps we have some gun owners in this forum. They would understand better, I think. ____________________________________________________ "I am your retribution." - Donald Trump, speech at CPAC, March 4, 2023 | |||
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Ammoholic |
I prefer for some to be armed always with AR. Since it's not always the case, I would bat an eye. I'd be wondering if they have some kind of Intel that raises threat level to warrant carrying extra firepower. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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