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When pilots carry guns. Plus: Airport security and yet more TSA brainteasers.
  • George Carlin's take on this...people like to feel safer

    George Carlin had an eerily prescient routine on airport security in a 1999 HBO special (called "You're all diseased") where he discussed the uselessness of airport security. His conclusion was that it's simply a matter of making people feel safer, not that it had any real use.