The latest event to be added to the growing list of Transportation Security Administration's failures involves a stun gun. A cleaning crew (not the TSA) found a stun gun onboard JetBlue Flight 1179 from Boston to Newark. This is alarming, because a stun gun could conceivably be used to hijack a plane. The stun gun's ability to intimidate and incapacitate people could be very desirable to someone wishing to take over a plane. The 9/11 hijackers even considered trying to use stun guns in their attack but later decided box cutters would be more practical.
Given the dangers stun guns could pose in the wrong hands on an airplane, it seems the TSA's primary function would be to keep weapons like stun guns off of planes, but they do not seem to be performing that function very well. The TSA, however, has shown incredible skill at molesting small children, harassing wounded veterans, humiliating handicapped people, and running hot chicks through full-body scanners.
On the topic of stun guns, why are the flight crews not armed with stun guns? A stun gun could be a very effective weapon against a hijacker. If the pilots and some flight attendants had stun guns on 9/11, all or most of the hijackers could have been stopped. Given the morbid incompetence of the TSA these days, the flight crews definitely need to be armed to fight against all of the terrorists and weapons the TSA allows on the planes.
