Keeping the world safe from regular people
Tourists to the Statue of Liberty are well armed. With knives and screwdrivers. And the Park Police have a SWAT team?
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October 18th, 2011 at 11:17 am
The US Park Police are a full service police department.
October 18th, 2011 at 1:00 pm
Looks like yet another place i’m not visiting anytime soon. Also, did anybody else’s brain scream, “tool!” as soon as they saw the leading picture?
October 18th, 2011 at 1:57 pm
“You don’t need a screwdriver to visit. . . ”
Since when did a screwdriver become anything other than a screwdriver? Hell, I find them in my back pocketsses all the time from doing honeydew stuff earlier in the day.
And I like that having screwdrivers, swiss army knives, and pepper spray is “well armed.” I wonder what that makes me?
October 18th, 2011 at 3:08 pm
Yes. This guy is not even all dressed up. The guy I saw when I was there had a armor vest and an AR all tacticooled up. He looked ready to storm into the breach. Too bad he’d have just gotten shot in the back of the head by any competent terrorist. Security theater.
I got the impression that they were aping the European style of security theater. The Euros have long felt that putting a machine gun toting guard at the airport equals security. It loses something when it happens in a country where the average citizen could go down to the store and buy 90% of what he was carrying.
October 18th, 2011 at 4:07 pm
And we get to go through all this to see the statue that’s a symbol of – and dedicated to – liberty.
October 19th, 2011 at 6:12 am
I went through the screening last March. I was warned ahead of time that my Leatherman would not be allowed so I left it in the hotel room that morning, and since we were visitng the Peoples Democratic Republic of Bloomburg, my carry gun stayed in South carolina.
But I was not unarmed. The screeners even had their grubby hands all over my weapon and never questioned it.
2.2 pounds of water + 1 liter aluminum bottle + bad guy head or ribs = effective close range weapon.