re: #17 SteveMcG

I remember the national guardsmen at the airports carrying weapons. You could walk right up to them and say hi. A bad guy could simply have walked up, decked him and ran away with a loaded weapon. That’s why I’m so sure they were only there for show.

No, it was worse than that. Those weapons the National Guard were carrying in airports after 9/11 were not loaded. It was totally for show.