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Are they going to take away my Make Magazine if it's in my carry-on for in-flight reading? We can't have ordinary citizens knowing that kind of stuff.
Once again, the police are either woefully under-trained or willfully ignorant. How hard would it be for any officer to have quietly pulled her aside and question her before surrounding her with automatic weapons drawn? Common sense says that their overreaction only heightens our sense of fear and insecurity and does nothing to make us actually safer. If this had been an actual terrorist, dozens, or perhaps hundreds, would have been dead long before they ever had a chance to react.
