Actually, I went in to write an entry asking people to tell me what I missed in world events in the last two weeks, as I was completely in a bubble and read/heard/saw very little news, but scrapped it so I guess it's appropriate that I got pwned by the post I put up with something I thought was still fresh and new. I realized I might have missed some stuff that went on in the world by the "Are you an idiot, lady?" look I got at the lunch place when I went in today and ordered my usual spinach salad.
And I'm absolutely, positively sure that packing a gun in your luggage won't get you permanently added to any heightened-risk extra-screening TSA lists, either.
I don't see why it would cause extra security pat-downs; you're permitted to check unloaded guns. Hunters and athletes do it all the time.
I mean, it's possible, little the government does follows logic, but to my mind, the guy that arranges to have a weapon safely secured isn't the guy we need to be worrying about.
According to metafilter gun cases get stolen too.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 09-27-06 9:49 PM
If you like metafilter so much, why don't you marry it?
Nice to have you back, Becks.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 09-27-06 9:53 PM
Bah! This is what I get for catching up with Crypto-Gram but not Metafilter.
Sigh.
I just should be banned from the Internets until I catch up on all of my blog reading.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 09-27-06 9:55 PM
2: I'm not sure whether to propose in AskMe or MeTa.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 09-27-06 9:58 PM
Actually, I went in to write an entry asking people to tell me what I missed in world events in the last two weeks, as I was completely in a bubble and read/heard/saw very little news, but scrapped it so I guess it's appropriate that I got pwned by the post I put up with something I thought was still fresh and new. I realized I might have missed some stuff that went on in the world by the "Are you an idiot, lady?" look I got at the lunch place when I went in today and ordered my usual spinach salad.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 09-27-06 10:00 PM
I have a rocket launcher for all my suitcases.
Posted by Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 09-27-06 10:09 PM
I pack spinach in mine.
Posted by Jesus McQueen | Link to this comment | 09-27-06 10:12 PM
And I'm absolutely, positively sure that packing a gun in your luggage won't get you permanently added to any heightened-risk extra-screening TSA lists, either.
Posted by Gaijin Biker | Link to this comment | 09-27-06 11:18 PM
Why would it? You're allowed to check unloaded guns.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 09-27-06 11:39 PM
Yeah, GB, in America we have a little thing called the Second Amendment.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 09-27-06 11:50 PM
Not if you're Mexican.
Posted by Matt F | Link to this comment | 09-27-06 11:55 PM
If you're Mexican you're probably already on the list.
Posted by teofilo | Link to this comment | 09-27-06 11:59 PM
First they came for the Mexicans.
Posted by Doctor Slack | Link to this comment | 09-28-06 12:51 AM
Guns: The gift that keeps on giving.
Posted by gswift | Link to this comment | 09-28-06 2:17 AM
I would strongly advise against packing a Mexican in every piece of checked luggage, however.
Posted by Cristoforo Sizemore | Link to this comment | 09-28-06 7:08 AM
A Persian OTOH...
Posted by Clownæsthesiologist | Link to this comment | 09-28-06 7:14 AM
I don't see why it would cause extra security pat-downs; you're permitted to check unloaded guns. Hunters and athletes do it all the time.
I mean, it's possible, little the government does follows logic, but to my mind, the guy that arranges to have a weapon safely secured isn't the guy we need to be worrying about.
Posted by Cala | Link to this comment | 09-28-06 7:42 AM