Interesting how we want to scan a plane full of old ladies with x-ray vision to make sure that everyone who goes up in a plane isn't trying to blow it up, yet we want everyone in America to be packing heat, and everyone growing weed to be put in the slammer.
When I look at risk, vulnerability, and impact, versus cost and consequences on the system, I don't get it. I don't see the risk very high at all of another underwear bomber, particularly since the one that tried burned his phallus and wasn't able to hurt anyone else. This alone should deter any other potential males from trying it, though even in failure he got us to freak out. And I don't trust anyone--I mean anyone--to be within range of me with a gun. I don't care if you're Charlie Heston in a robe on Mount Sinai. The risk may also be fairly low--not lower than an underwear bomber--but the results would be even worse, since the person with the gun will be able to inflict terrible harm without much chance of singeing his Johnson.
And what is the risk of someone growing weed? We pay a tremendous cost to corporate prisons to incarcerate these people, and the only reason there is any risk to me now, is due to the fact that there is a risk to them of going to prison. Thus, they might shoot someone who witnesses a deal in the park, or stumbles upon the cultivation.
Now, in a real America, stoned citizens would be packing guns on a DC-9 with no record of their private parts on TSA scanners. And we would all live happily ever after.
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