Constitutional Law

Airline security

Crime, Guns, and Videotape has some thoughts. It's become what gun control used to be -- something happens, pass another law to show "we did something," whether or not that has any relationship to present or future. Here -- without advanced screening sensors, it's going to be hard to stop a primitive with explosive under his clothing. But security kabuki requires that something be done, so they ban getting out of your seat during the last hour of a flight.

Full post as published by Of Arms and the Law on December 27, 2009 (boomark / email).