“Minutes before a gunman opened fire in a Los Angeles International Airport terminal last fall, killing a security screener and wounding three other people, the two armed officers assigned to the area left for breaks without informing a dispatcher as required,” the AP reports. In other words, they left the airport unprotected. “When the shooting started, the two officials say one of the armed officers assigned to the terminal was at or just outside an adjacent terminal. One of the officials said the officer was on a bathroom break and the other foot-beat officer was in a vehicle on the tarmac outside Terminal 3, headed for a meal break.” And none of the passengers or visitors in the terminal were armed. As far as we know. Aside from Paul Ciancia, who used his rifle to kill a TSA guard and proceed through the airport unopposed. The police union rep reckons “it could have been a lot worse.” What’s more . . .
Airport police union chief Marshall McClain said the two officers assigned to Terminal 3 still were in position to quickly respond to the shooting. He said he’d spoken with both and confirmed one was “going to the restroom or coming back from the restroom” and the other was headed out on a meal break but still within his patrol area.
“He hadn’t gone on break yet. He was going to go on break,” McClain said. What typically happens is, “if you’re going to go on a lunch break, you get to your location and you tell them that you’re there.” Officers often do this in order to maximize their lunch break so they don’t lose time while traveling.”
How reassuring. And yet, somehow, I don’t believe it’s true. I’d like to see the airport’s official break policies and security footage confirming these “facts.”
It’s too bad this didn’t go down in Bergstrom International, Austin, or any of the other airports where the public’s “allowed” to exercise their natural, civil and Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms up to the security checkpoint. Different outcome? Maybe. I bet the family of the slain TSA agent would have preferred his odds in the Lone Star State.
Mr. Bright is right. When it says right to keep in bear arms it means even arms like fully automatic weapons. As far as teachers having guns in the school, nothing more would put a smile on my face to know that a deranged loser went in the school with a gun (of any type) and came out on a stretcher or going to the squad car with crap in his pants because he encountered a armed teacher.
“Lax” security indeed.
High fives were given all around with that headline
With teacher pay being what it is I don’t think I could afford to own a machine gun even if it were legal… just firing one would eat up my entire (small) salary, LOL.
BTW, many teachers (myself) included aren’t naive about the issue at all, including the horrific possibility of an armed attacker intent on murdering innocent children. Plans have been made, even if they don’t have the official stamp of the district or state’s approval.
My wife bought the LC380 and she loves it! She shoots it better than her SR22 .
The Galloway Precision trigger bar kit fixes the loooonng trigger pull. It is well worth installing and can be done at the kitchen table in an evening with common tools.
It is much easier to shoot than the much smaller LCP.
Be sure to clean the magazines. They come filthy.
Clean the trigger action too; same reason.
Some mags lock back. Some don’t. Ruger will replace those that don’t.
Hazards of 24/7 production.
These things don’t ever happen in places where law abiding, concealed carry permit holders, could have stopped the “bad guy” because “bad guys” are smart enough to avoid those places on purpose. After all they might get shot.
I’ve basically stopped going to my bank’s branch location because, suddenly and for no reason I can see, 3 months ago a sign went up on the door. “No Guns On Premises.” Its like labeling the place, “Hey! Easy Target!”
P.S.: No, there are no guards at the bank, and the lobby has no bullet proof glass installations. Its like a posh decorated living room… Where people regularly hand over hundreds or thousands of dollars.
Surveillance cameras and insurance. They don’t care if some employee or customer blood is spilled – cost of doing business.
Although, I think most criminals would not consider banks to be “easy targets.”
Fail on the professors, typical head in dirt liberal mindset. Lots of fail from the “students” in the comments also, more head in dirt liberal mindset. Suppose we should be thankful that this didnt escalate to higher levels else we would have new throngs of Colin Goddards filling the MSM with their drivel.
when seconds count, the police are on the crapper. Please politely tell the shooter to wait 10 minutes for police to arrive.
And when they come, they’re pulling up their pants and there’s TP hanging off their shoe….
Try to get that image out of your mind.
(I’m not talking about you, Roscoe at the NSA, how’s the family by the way?)
I think the rifles look great and are probably wonderful. I can see this being better for some government agencies who may already deal with Colt as they can expand their buys from a vendor who has already been vetted and approved by procurement people. Maybe helps on support costs as well. But I am not a government, just your standard rifle loony.
My problem is that if I was going to drop $3k on a rifle, why wouldn’t I just go directly to Coopers? Seems like Colt is simply buying them out and adding nothing to the product except their logo. Am I missing something?
It was my understanding he used Tannerite and that does not require a license, however the amounts he used caused complaints from neighbors and was part of the ATF’s justification for the raid.
Ok, all the stuff about “getting caught with your pants down” is amusing in a macabre manner. It’s another thing entirely when you’re in the process of dropping an epic log, dropping off the kids at the pool, 10-6 on the brown, etc. Murphy’s law kicks in, and dispatch calls over the radio with some sort of urgent clusterfvck.
Not only does dispatch want to know where you are (in the friggin crapper!), but sometimes they even want to know what exactly your doing (taking care of important paperwork), and what your ETA is. Then your stuck furiously wiping and clipping as your un-discombobulate your gun belt, radio, baton, belts clips, etc. only to find yourself on-scene with a news chopper overhead and your damn zipper is still down.
Of course, that’s never happened to me (this week), but it can happen.
Regardless of the method, I think that a pay-per-view event is the way to go. Disperse the proceeds to the victims family, maybe recoup some of the costs of the trial/detention/execution…
Options given:sell it to a licensed gun dealer, remove it from the state, or turn it over to law enforcement.
How does one do this without being in posession?
What if you are pulled over while trying to exercise one of these options?
What is the legal hazard here?