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Sources: Pew Research Center, IMS Health, Generous Giving, AP, TSA...
...nearly a year, Washington's mushrooming aviation-security apparatus has concentrated on keeping anything that looks remotely like a weapon off airplanes. A G.I. Joe's toy gun. A granny's knitting needle. Everyone's nail clippers. Yet now the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is on the verge of a curious reversal. Next month the U.S. Senate is expected to pass legislation authorizing pilots to carry guns on planes...
...confidence has waned in other efforts to enhance airline security, initial critics of cockpit guns are embracing them. A key reason may have come last February. The airlines and the TSA had claimed reinforced doors would keep out hijackers. Then an apparently disturbed man took only minutes to burst through the entry to the cockpit of a United Air Lines plane. The pilot had to wield an emergency-crash ax to stop...
Much of the problem, in the view of Baumgartner, is the rush to have some bag-screening system--any bag-screening system--in place by the congressionally mandated deadline of Dec. 31. He is one of 39 airport managers who sent a letter to the TSA on May 29 appealing for the deadline to be extended. The message may have finally got through to Congress; Representative Kay Granger, a Texas Republican, will introduce a bill this week that will give airports more flexibility in meeting bag-screening requirements and allow them to come up with individualized plans...
...Denver's Bruce Baumgartner has been one of the country's most outspoken critics of the TSA, and he took a great deal of time to explain to us the alternative systems he has researched and proposed for his airport. It's a thin line for Baumgartner, and for me, really. Of course we want airport security to be airtight, and we do not want to reveal anything that might aid someone who wants to do harm. In my reporting since Sept. 11, I have discovered a number of security issues that I have in the end not written about...