Carry my chainsaw on airplane?

I think the very safest thing to do, if you are bound and determined to try to carry a knife on a plane is simply carry a preaddressed mailing envelope. Be sure it already has postage on it. If you get stopped at security and they won't let you on board, mail the knife home.

No matter how long this discussion goes on, it will not change the facts, that once you enter security, at an airport, you are under a different set of rules. Your rights are restricted and some of them no longer exist. If security says "no" you are screwed. If you argue, they simply will not let you thru and you miss your flight. If you make a really big stink and loose control you go to jail. Security doesn't care if you call your knife, or think of your knife as a "tool", a "knife", or a "pacifier". It makes no difference to them what you call it. If they say "out", its "out".

Also as time goes on, the restrictions at airport security are only going to get tighter. I am not in favor of them, but no sence trying to change something that we cannot ever change.
 
posted by jayharley

no sence trying to change something that we cannot ever change.
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I disagree. I refuse to give my rights up, and I refuse to stop trying to change silly rules and regulations.
 
Elvislives: I very much honor your goals. The key at this stage is for you to try to change the security methods in a way to make the change work. How do you plan on doing that (and I do not mean to sound adversarial)? Certainly simply not flying any more is not going to change anything. People who fly are going to continue flying regardless. Also arguing with the security won't help. Sneaking a blade on a plane will not accomplish anything in terms of changing security in a meaningful way. Plus the majority of US flyers want strict security at the airports. Last of all: is this issue so important that you want to spend time trying to change it?

Seriously, you hit on a very very good point. What can you do to actually change the security laws at the airport? I guess you should start writing letters to the appropriate people. Let us all know your plan so we can maybe take part in it.

I find that complaining about a situation like this is healthy, but very very easy. When someone seriously wants to change the situation, then my ears perk up! Let us know what you suggest.
 
Try working on free speech before you try right to carry. Tell a joke about explosives in the terminal. At your arraignment, you can tell them how it was your constitutionally protected right.

Face it - Airline security has a broader goal in mind than insuring your individual rights. Public safety trumps, every time.
 
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