RealGun
Member
I don't know about "refuse", but I have certainly been avoiding it for a number of reasons.
. On 9/11 I was just east of Kansas City on an 1100 mile drive to Kansas. My alternative would have been to fly out of Dulles that morning at about the same time as when the Dulles flight hit the Pentagon. Not sure if it would have been the same flight but it would have been really close. A neighbor a few doors down was killed at the Pentagon. I since moved to SC.
' On my only flight since, I had to mail home a miniature Victorinox pocket knife for almost the same cost as a new one...either that or have it confiscated. I have since read about confiscation of fingernail clippers...typical bureaucratic absurdity. I think I will wait until sanity is restored.
. TSA is stonewalling arming of pilots and deployment of sky marshals. In effect, I am boycotting because of that.
. I avoid "gun free" zones and situations
. Travelling between States is like travelling between countries because of variations in gun control laws. It's bad enough in a car.
. I am not sure I trust airport security. I don't enjoy the helpless feeling involved in flying. It requires too much trust that may not be warranted.
. All this "security" has more to do with protecting the airline industry and spin control than it does with actual passenger safety. If passenger safety was a real issue, then armed pilots and sky marshals would have been a slam dunk. Gun control mentality and insurance companies (redundant, but tort liability/reform is supposedly the issue) are what are standing in the way.
. On 9/11 I was just east of Kansas City on an 1100 mile drive to Kansas. My alternative would have been to fly out of Dulles that morning at about the same time as when the Dulles flight hit the Pentagon. Not sure if it would have been the same flight but it would have been really close. A neighbor a few doors down was killed at the Pentagon. I since moved to SC.
' On my only flight since, I had to mail home a miniature Victorinox pocket knife for almost the same cost as a new one...either that or have it confiscated. I have since read about confiscation of fingernail clippers...typical bureaucratic absurdity. I think I will wait until sanity is restored.
. TSA is stonewalling arming of pilots and deployment of sky marshals. In effect, I am boycotting because of that.
. I avoid "gun free" zones and situations
. Travelling between States is like travelling between countries because of variations in gun control laws. It's bad enough in a car.
. I am not sure I trust airport security. I don't enjoy the helpless feeling involved in flying. It requires too much trust that may not be warranted.
. All this "security" has more to do with protecting the airline industry and spin control than it does with actual passenger safety. If passenger safety was a real issue, then armed pilots and sky marshals would have been a slam dunk. Gun control mentality and insurance companies (redundant, but tort liability/reform is supposedly the issue) are what are standing in the way.