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		swohns on Nov 20, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Airport Security Is Killing Us The numbers themselves aren't the real takeaway, it's how preventable these deaths are.

lostlogin on Nov 20, 2012 [–]

Exactly, and one can conclude that the dollars spent versus lives saved makes the waste seem even greater. Converting the TSA to bee control as mentioned above would lively save more lives (to take an extreme example).

flyinRyan on Nov 23, 2012 | [–]

Especially when you consider that TSA is yet to catch a single terrorist in their entire history.

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