On Tue, 7 May 2013 23:39:03 -0400, "John Grossbohlin"
wrote:

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On Tue, 7 May 2013 21:34:34 -0400, "John Grossbohlin"

To get past the TSA?

Another non-issue... Armored cockpit doors installed post-9/11 makes
anything but bombs pretty much useless in commandeering airliners.

There are other places were such things would be "useful". Suicide
assins, anyone?

Seriously?

I see you're blind to the facts of life.

The risk of being struck by lightening is way higher than the
risk of this for all but a small number of people in the world...

Ah, so I'm not important enough to be "assassinated", there is no one
on the planet who is. Go it.

They have
security details and technology on their side.

Good grief. They're going to be of no help against a lone gunman with
a suicide wish. Perhaps John Hinkley didn't exist in your universe.

On the other hand, while at
an academic law conference in Phoenix I heard one participant remark that
the most dangerous place in Washington, DC is between Chuck Schumer and a
television camera. I chuckled at the time but from what I've seen since
then I believe there is a lot of truth to that: It is no surprise that he is
out talking of the fantasy evils of these guns...


That is
what led to the changes recently that allows for small pocket knives, nail
clippers, etc., to be carried on-board again...

...except they aren't.

The regs are changing... http://www.tsa.gov/pil-sharpobjects and
http://www.tsa.gov/pil-sportequip

They've already said that it's not going to happen. Keep up.