I do not disagree with AD
but, it comes down to this... what is "airport"
soon after 911, I was inside the "glass cage" (more than once), and the only thing that bothered me was the every 30 seconds real loud "No Smoking" announcement
and I was real happy that they don't allow my gun on me inside the cage.. because I really don't want to become the next "road rage" news story
I was not one wit bothered by getting out of my vehicle in the hourly rate parking garage (short walk) outside the glass cage, whist a couple of NG guys w/MI6s looked around, in, and under my car.. struck me as "comforting and appropriate"
didn't bother me a bit, and would not have, if they had found and asked about my licensed/loaded carry handgun (removed from self and parked appropriately inside a proper place inside my vehicle upon entering entry road into)
did not bother me a bit, the NG guys with M16s inside the glass cage, but outside the gates.. struck me as "comforting and appropriate"
(and this was a Florida airport, infamous for why there was a reason for Florida to start putting "observers" at rest stops on roads leaving airports.. well before 'the world will never be the same post-911')
it is not about political persuasions, X, Y, or Z
it's not about religion persuasions, X, Y, or Z
it is not O vs. W
most all of the major "Airport Authorities", for a lot of years now, own all property within miles of the glass cage... coming and going,
and I am way too old to walk that far, and too damn fat to run away fast enough, and am not going to leave milady, even if I can still crawl fast
seen way too many of all flavors tell me what is good for my own good -
old and peevish, yet no matter what colors they fly, I am willing to go along to get along
(even if if means not trying to sneak a 357 mag inside the glass cage to the blast the **** out of that glass cage speaker system)
but me don't think this fool, flavor D or R or X or Z, is proposing that I should be protected from anything new or different, that I wasn't already 'protected from' long before 911
some may just have to do a political rant, maybe
but all of us, all flavors, can enjoy having just so many people saving us from ourselves, no matter what spin they are selling
that is how I see this one
"sparrow" - not everybody who digs you out from under a pile is your friend, no matter what stripes they wear