Cutting waste
My rep. says the Air Marshall program is useless and needless: more air marshals had been arrested than had been arrests made by air marshals, and that they were spending approximately $200 million per arrest each year
He’s right.
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June 18th, 2012 at 10:50 am
Yup, solution is to arm everyone but the government it seems.
June 18th, 2012 at 11:15 am
2nd the arm everyone but government employees idea.
June 18th, 2012 at 12:00 pm
Good, good.
Now, let’s carry that line of thought over here, right here, to the entire TSA effort.
Do you see any parallels?
I knew you would.
June 18th, 2012 at 12:29 pm
Do away with the Air Marshall Program, give the money to the Armed Pilots Program.
June 18th, 2012 at 12:48 pm
Do away with the TSA and give guns to the passengers..
June 18th, 2012 at 1:00 pm
I’d settle for giving K-Bars to the passengers.
June 18th, 2012 at 1:17 pm
I’d settle for being allowed to bring my own gun (and knives, like I used to).
June 18th, 2012 at 3:29 pm
A pilot friend of mine estimated that 60% or more of the pilots were signed up for the armed pilots program, which seemed unbelievably high to me. Anyone have better data?
June 18th, 2012 at 3:37 pm
Do away with air marshals, TSA, and Homeland Security, and everyone gets their own fighter plane.
June 18th, 2012 at 4:39 pm
Rep. Duncan seems to not understand what it is we actually do. The Federal Air Marshal Service was never designed to make arrests. It is a deterrent force until it is required to involve itself in actions within its scope of authority. Our scope is within the define special aircraft jurisdiction, and not being the “airplane police”. We have expressly LIMITED our involvement in issues where other agencies have primary jurisdiction in order to remain focused on identifying threats to US commercial aviation interests. The comparison put forth by Rep Duncan is not analogous to any other local, state or federal law enforcement agency. Based on his logic, then he would have to do away with the many local and state agencies within his District that also have officers that run afoul of the law rather than see them dealt with individually. Same thing with all the TN CCDW holders out there, do you feel you should be held accountable and your ability to obtain a CCDW restricted or removed because of the actions of a few?
June 18th, 2012 at 6:39 pm
All I know is every Officer in my Agency that I know(5) that has left for the Air Marshalls has comeback. That’s pretty bad when you comeback to an overly political inner city over a federal gig. At least the Air Marshalls arent driving around in tanks and shooting dogs…theyve got that going for them, right?
June 18th, 2012 at 7:30 pm
To be honest, I much prefer the Air Marshals to the TSA. At least the Marshals aren’t groping me with regularity. Kill the TSA and keep the Marshals.
June 18th, 2012 at 7:49 pm
Just arm everyone but the government, if terrorists exist they would go after the most vulnerable target and two birds one stone.
June 18th, 2012 at 8:44 pm
DHSGuy, aren’t you conflating ideas a bit? We have a right to self-defense, even if regulated to some extent via licensing. However, you don’t have a right to a job as an Air Marshall.
June 18th, 2012 at 8:52 pm
S. Lee,
I attempted to point out the dichotomy between two groups, each with a percentage of boneheads that do stupid things. Rep Duncan is not however, introducing legislation do away with TN CCDW because TN CCDW licensees are ineffective at individual self defense. He has not cost compared the cost of administering the program versus reported CCDW incidents and determined that is is inefficient. Again, CCDW’s are issued under the premise that one MIGHT have to defend themselves, not that it’s only a valid program if cost effective. How does one quantify a negative?
June 19th, 2012 at 2:00 am
DHSGuy…”How does one quantify a negative?”
They become an Air Marshal??
June 19th, 2012 at 3:23 pm
Whatever. Just toss the TSA on the compost heap first.