Re:TSA's Head of Security 'Removed' from Office
by DanielBMarkham on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @09:50AM
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There was also a guy that planted a bomb in order to kill his wife.
I'm guessing the number of weapons on U.S. planes that get by security run into the thousands every year. And before all the checks, probably the tens or hundreds of thousands per year.
Looks extremely rare. I mean really, really extremely rare. Handful of examples and roughly 9 million U.S. airline flights last year[1]
It'd be interesting to run some comparative statistics. I bet the odds show that you're safer with a plane full of gun owners, having their guns in holsters and loaded, than you are spending the same amount of time in each of those gun owners' homes.
This guy shot the pilots:
http://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/burke-david.htm
This guy stabbed one pilot to death before he was subdued:
http://murderpedia.org/male.N/n/nishizawa-yuji.htm
The stabbing occurred after he reported the security flaw he used to get the knife on board the plane. Previously checked baggage could be picked up after passing through security for another flight. He was able to simply take the knife out of a bag he had checked on a previous flight.