Armed officers at every airport checkpoint? #tellusatoday

After the fatal shooting of a TSA agent at Los Angeles airport Friday, we asked our Twitter followers what they thought about armed security at all airport checkpoints. Comments are edited for clarity and grammar:

It's a terrible idea to have armed officers at every airport checkpoint. The U.S. isn't a police state. The solution to gun violence isn't more guns.

— @kevinrleyland

Absolutely! Why not? TSA agents screen us for safety, and they should be safe as well.

— @KimWendel

We can't prevent everything. Armed guards seem to be an exaggerated response to an isolated incident.

— @CJ11andFOX

Armed guards at all checkpoints would be window dressing. We need to catch threats upstream. Use profiling and technology, including the NSA.

— @tridentjohn

I think all TSA agents should be armed, or there should be two armed guards at all checkpoints.

— @Otaku2012

I've never felt safer walking through an airport than I was seeing armed National Guard after 9/11. I have no problem with that.

— @chumley001

No, where would that lead? People give inches and miles are taken. We have given up enough freedoms already.

— @BillVanTweet

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