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Right, they have to call the guy with a gun over. Is the problem the luggage search, as in, the invasion of privacy? The explicit threat of force in the absence of immediate compliance? The assumption of guilt for the general populace? The ever-present security state continually looking to oppress?

Or is it “huh europe is weird they give their TSA agents guns instead of having the transport security and also airport police?”






It's just an anecdote. I wasn't trying to draw any philosophical conclusions from it.



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