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Ron DeSantis floats a new solution to tackle long airport lines: Get rid of the TSA altogether
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2026
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Privatization would return us to the pre-9/11 days when the TSA didn’t even exist. The problem with the private security back then was that each airport was responsible for contracting out their own security. So you had no standardized training, airports going with the cheapest bidder, etc.
I still remember taking a business trip back in the 90’s, wearing the exact same clothes through two different airports. At one airport I walked through security without a hitch. At the second one I set off the metal detector multiple times. The screener ultimately used a wand and determined it was the metal studs in the jeans I was wearing and also the metal eyelets in my shoes. When I mentioned breezing through security at the first airport he said it wasn’t surprising the different airports had their metal detectors set to different sensitivities.
Privitization can be a good replacement for the TSA, but only if it’s done correctly with proper training, standardization, testing, etc.