Aaron Rainwater, Rare Contributor
Posted on September 26, 2014 10:10 am
In the resurging discussion of terror threats emerging from the Middle East, it’s hard to turn on the news without getting the distinct impression that the sky is falling. While some of the fear surrounding this topic is overblown, some of it isn’t. There are bad people in the world who do want to do bad things to Americans.
So what can we do, here at home, to help ensure that we don’t see more tragedies like what was witnessed on September 11, 2001?
Here are three suggestions:
1. Eliminate gun-free zones
Committing violent acts of terror against unarmed civilians is the epitome of cowardice. It is for this reason that we, both publicly and privately, must refuse to empower terrorists by establishing or maintaining gun-free zones.
Gun-free zones do nothing to promote or provide safety from deranged attackers or terrorists. In reality, gun-free zones only encourage terrorists by creating large target areas where law-abiding, disarmed individuals can be attacked with little hope of self-defense.
As Robert Heinlein famously observed, “an armed society is a polite society.”
2. Privatize the TSA
The TSA was created to make travelers safer and to prevent such horrible events as those that occurred on 9/11. So far its performance has been less than inspiring.
Despite its massive $8 billion tax-funded budget, over 62,000 employees, and the ability to legally violate the privacy and dignity of travelers, the TSA has performed as poorly or perhaps even worse than airport security under the FAA before 9/11.
In the first decade of its existence, 25,000 security violations occurred, three out of four fake bombs made it through TSA screenings when tested, and TSA officers couldn’t even stop a man with explosive underpants even though they had been specifically warned about him by his father.
No serious person can believe that these are acceptable standards or that we are getting as much safety in return for the liberty we lose. Pressure should be put on our elected representatives to abolish this failed institution of security theatre and allow the private sector to innovate and serve customers as only it can.
Eliminating dependency on government by privatizing airport security would give airports an incentive to make their flights safe while still maintaining respect for the civil liberties and comfort of passengers whose business they depend on.
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