“Yes, if you are on the terrorist watch list, the authorities can keep you from getting on a plane but not from purchasing an AK-47. This makes sense to Congress because, as [Senator Lindsey] Graham accurately pointed out, ‘when the founders sat down and wrote the Constitution, they didn’t consider flying.’ ”
Also from Collins:
And almost everyone [at the senate hearing] had a good word for the T-shirt vendor who first noticed the suspicious car and raised an alert. Really, if someone had introduced a bill calling for additional T-shirt vendors, it would have sailed through in a heartbeat.
Gun legislation, not so popular.
“We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won’t allow them to write ‘f***’ on their airplanes because it’s obscene!”
Colonel Kurtz; “Apocalypse Now”
The t-shirt vendor was a Senegalese Muslim immigrant… just the sort of guy that is blindly reviled by certain groups.
People want prayer in schools, but when a Muslim prays in an airport they pull him off the plane.