Overall topic of Airport Security. Not only what was demonstrated yesterday, if there is a need of increase in security from the federal government or if there are other ways to make the airports safer. Here is how you can comment you can send us a tweet at c cspanwj, facebook. Com cspan, or you can send us an email at journal cspan. Org. Here is the headline from the Los Angeles Times this morning a 23yearold native from new jersey who lives in los angeles. There is a larger story when it comes to the topic of Airport Security. This is from the wall street journal your thoughts on Airport Security and if you think changes need to be made in light of what happened yesterday at Los Angeles International airport. We divided the lines regionally. If you live in an eastern or central time zone again, tweets are available, post on our Facebook Page, and send us an email. Withresident was briefing the iraq he Prime Minister yesterday. About whatwas asked took place in the airport yesterday. Heres the president s response. It butre concerned about i will let the Law Enforcement folks talk about it directly. Host that is the extent of the statements yesterday. There were others made from Homeland Security. Your thoughts on Airport Security we start off with gilbert who joins us from tulsa oklahoma. Good morning. Good morning. On Airport Security, we cannot separate Airport Security from the rest of the country and the rest of the world. Practicing conflict resolution. That man who came in their shooting yesterday, he has a mental problem. He had a problem with someone and he was paying them back. Look at what we have done all over the world. If you want to solve a problem, get a gun and shoot them. Look at what we have done. We cannot separate the airport from anything else in this country. Startd to stop and talking to people rather than shooting people. We have not been able to do that. Host how does that play out when it comes to Airport Security and talking to people. Half same here and same here in oklahoma. 360 peopleo who have been shot and killed in this country. Someone will get something through to pay someone back. You can make your point on the phone lines. A couple of Facebook Comments this morning those are just three comments on our Facebook Page this morning. You can join the conversation at facebook. Com cspan. Here is mark from philadelphia, pennsylvania. I think what we need to do is i think its ridiculous that these people are not armed. They are the firstline line of defense against to these maniacs. I think it is ridiculous. T you mean tsa agency e tsa agents . Caller im not talking about 10 yards or 20 yards away. Im talking about have somebody somewhere in the immediate facility with a weapon. Airport was roaming the and nobody with a gun was anywhere to be found. As far as other procedures that could take place either from the airport loss airports point of view or governments point of view, your thoughts on arming tsa agents, what are your thoughts on how to improve overall Airport Security . I guess you have to get them in the front door. This guy apparently walked in the front or with a weapon. If you go to a lot of places, schools or whatever, you walk through a metal to tactic. That is what we need, get them from the front as they come in the door. Host the Orange County register has a graphic. With a man opened fire semi automatic weapon. This is the tsa screening area. He continued to shoot, according to a witness. Tsa officer gerardo hernandez. As shot from the point where he enters into the point where he gets to that mind, we are asking about overall Airport Security. Do you think things are situated as far as having tsa their . Make your thoughts known. Dallas, texas is up next, here is ralph. You are on go ahead. I was watching everything, the television, when this was unfolding. Do believe the Airport Security needs to be trained a little bit more. I do believe some of them need to be certified to carry notarms so the stuff does happen again. They mayad been armed have prevented this from the gentleman getting to the food cart area. I will take my answer off air. Host before you leave, do you think more security needs to be done before you get to the point when you walk into the tsa line, as the previous caller put it to . More security might be the problem is not more. Itthey are not welltrained does not matter how many you have. Somebody will do this again. Host do you think about the stuff when you go to fly at the airport . Caller i used to work security. They need more training so they can observe if they had somebody that was trained a little bit better, maybe the gentleman would not have been able to get to the first area. Host use a train and observe, put those two things together. Morer training means stuff like an Armed Security should have more training than a regular officer had. Tell hope people do just by looking how people do just by looking at them. It is not right. It trained officer will know how to handle it in how to handle it. What type of security did you do . I used to do security over 20 years ago. What i did was different than what the tsa does. Back then they did not have all the stuff going on. They need some more training, get their people if it up more. Get their people a bit up more. Host on twitter this question results from the shooting at Los Angeles International airport. Bernice from pennsylvania, good morning. I was in an International Airport about six months ago in a wheelchair. When the girl rolled me up to the first agent, he towered over me because i was sitting down. The first thing he did was put his two fingers up to his eyes and then back to me like, im watching you. He kind of got a bit intimidating and did not know who i was, why was there, what my circumstances were. He got a little smart with me. They are intimidating. The girl who was pushing my wheelchair said to me he does that all the time with people. I said, first of all he does not know who he is dealing with, why i am there. The last time this happened to me in a florida airport five years ago when a ticket agent gave me a rough time about the carryon beauty he was only carryon. I could very well have reported him. I should have asked him for his name and maybe give him a little heads up. Of course i wasnt going to report him. I let him sweat it out a little bit. You just dont do that to passengers who you have no idea who they are. I was perfectly confident and she said, he just he said to me, oh i talked with my grandmother. I thought, i dont care, sir. You are supposed to be following the rules. Host because of that experience and especially from what you heard yesterday, how would you describe or what i your thoughts on the current state of Airport Security . I know it is a very hazardous job for them nowadays. I think they should not fool around and get personal with passengers. I dont know. Say. t even know what to there are all those crazies out right up get the guns to practically the jetway. Comes to the federal presence, do you think it should be extended beyond tsa to make airports more secure . Caller i think they are doing the best they can but people are unpredictable. I dont understand he got through how he got through with a weapon. I know theres a lot of x raying. Trying ink they are just my opinion. People are going to do with they are going to do. Host here is charles from florida. Caller good morning. They should arm everybody. That will shake everybody up. I know people. Secure and you have a , they are notu going to try to get through. I used to fly all the time. I am 77 years old. Security has got to be tight. If its tight nobody will move. Host the Homeland Security , saying tary your view of Airport Security is the topic for our first 45 minutes. Here is donna from nevada. Here is don from nevada. Caller thank you for taking my call. It is a bit much when a person with an automatic rifle can walk through the door anywhere in the airport. Courthouses, in order to get through the front door you have to go through a metal metal detector. I think it would be a good idea if they did that before you enter the airport, right at the doors, put in medical that put in metal detectors with Armed Security guards. They can detect an automatic rifle at the door before it happens. To let them go into the airport is a bit much, especially with an automatic weapon. Or even a terrorist. That is all i have in my comment. Oft have you flown out where you lived many times or even a cable of times a couple of times . Out of justve flown about every major airport in the country. [indiscernible] think airport designs with is it to open how people gain access to an airport . Toyou think airports are open as far as how people get in . Would yes, i think that deter the sickos that carry automatic weapons. With an m16 weapon and start shooting at innocent people, children, is a bit much. Host betty from spring hill, florida. Good morning. Caller good morning. I think we should give these crazy gun control killing problems to the National Rifle association to solve. They caused this gun problem with these repeater rifles. Host what about airports, what is their role . Has controlhe nra of everything, that would be it. Betty fromis florida. From the Washington Post this morning here is build from spring valley, new york. Caller good morning. You need to set up an outer barrier. You are not going to get your bags and the airport terminal car bombs have been used in the past. Airports areof the sufficiently guarded so you could not drive a car into the airport now. Lax think security should start as early as the parking garage . Caller as soon as you get out of the cab or limo, those bags need be checked before you enter the terminal. You watchedopsis yesterday, he was only interested in certain parties. If a terrorist tries the same [indiscernible] yet to set the barriers further back. Do you think air travel would be ok with an extra layer of security . Out put aarrier barrier out. We have mass of people congregating there. If they would stop somebody like yesterday from getting inside the terminal with a loaded weapon or even a bomb in the bag, it doesnt matter what it is host from twitter your view of Airport Security is our topic after the shooting at Los Angeles International airport. Justin is up next. Iowa. From red oak, caller i just have a quick comment. Something that bothered me about come a especially dealing with tsa and the whatnot, a lot of these places first of all, i would like to make a point of clarification. Don from nevada said five times this was an automatic weapon. It was a standard semi automatic weapon. It is a totally legal advice legal device. Number two, about tsa, this is something that should have been going on. We do see, like with germany, we see Police Walking around with uzis. They are highly visible. There incidents are extremely low. Passengers react in germany from your experience as far as these extra levels . Caller they see it as something totally normal. It is something that is a gross deterrent to any type of shenanigans. These are not tsa, this is actual police. The tsa screening that goes on right now is sufficient, if not a bit too sufficient. I really enjoy this idea that there is a prescreening now, where you can go on and do your fingerprint and so on and so far and so forth, enabling you to have free movement. Airports like in germany and in paris, you can see these people mean business when you who are heavily , carrying a cosmetic rifle like an m16. Have annot allowed to m16 but you are allowed to have an aar 15. An ar15 15 as these areng local Police Officers rather than something nationwide, so the municipality is the one paying for this, having more federal taxes going to Something Like this. Host here is an email this morning from sue alfie from arizona, good morning. Caller i have been watching since you came on the air. My first comment, to the lady from florida, we do not want the nra taking care of this. They want everyone to be armed. Fewer people armed is better off. As far as security, i dont have a problem with it. I do not fly that often because i dont have a place to fly to. I have always enjoyed feeling secure. Accidents happen. We are we have people who are we have tohelp read watch out for ourselves, trust those in charge to watch out for us, and to live our lives the best we can. Thank you so much. Host we will hear next from velda from los angeles. I fly out of lax when we fly. Alerthen lax is on high they do not take measures like florida. Florida high alert is very intense. You cannot even get into the airport. Car, theyder your have the bomb sniffing dogs. A question you before you can even enter into the airport. Alert, theyon high dont go under your car with the they dont take things very seriously. I guess we havent had anything really happened here. I am not going to fly. Everybody has to got start looking out for each other. Host where do you fly to florida where you get all the security precautions . Caller tampa. We fly out to fiji, puerto rico, is verytampa security intense. Because ofu think the volume that takes place at los angeles, what is done in tampa could work in los angeles . Caller everybody is in a hurry. But we have to slow down. We have got to slow down. I dont care. Take i would rather arrive at the airport to our three hours before my flight , three or four hours if necessary. We need security before we even get into the airport. It should be like the courthouse. We should have xray machines and security we should not be allowed to enter into the airport. Far as future trips out of lax, are you going to take any . Caller yes, i live close to the airport. It is very convenient. In aboutosed be flying four more months. You can weigh in no matter where you live in the United States on the phone lines, on twitter, on email and facebook. We will hear from another californian. This is john from fairfield. Caller i travel every week somewhere. I wasnt there yesterday but often times i am on i am at lax on friday. I am a simple traveler. Without breaking a sweat i could tell you how to get in an airport, it is not difficult. The entrance is fairly secure. Somebody says florida is more secure. Some are better than others. If you want to get into an airport, going to the exit. Recently i came home through sacramento and it was about 10 p. M. There was one agent through the exit sound asleep at a podium. I woke him up and he was startled and i continued on. I didnt think too much about it and then a month later, about 10 p. M. , same airport and same exit, sound asleep. I took his picture with my cell phone and woke him up. He was startled and i complained. I said i want to speak to your manager. He said the manager is back in the airport. I had already left and he said i can go in and and talk to her. Walked about 100 yards and spoke to her and gave her my business card, i work for a large company. Military andin the i suggest did why dont you have the tsa agents stand . They are less likely to follow steep fall asleep standing. I cant breaking a sweat, tell you how easy it is. Ill give you one more example that comes to mind, when i am at my home office i have big scissors, i called him shares call them shears. A month ago i misplaced them and i got another pair in the drawer. For a month i traveled every week somewhere in and out of airports. Just the other day i found them in my briefcase, the same briefcase that gets one through security five times a week. Host do you do International Travel . Caller i do not. Host do you think the federal role in Airport Security should be expanded the on tsa . Caller i dont know, common sense. Wasntinue to travel and he and use lax. At some point you have to take your chances and live your life. Now that i am thinking about company i work for sells equipment. If you are just a terrorist somebody could have walked in with a machine gun and camped out at tenet night until the morning in one of the restrooms until everyone was there and came out and just taken everybody out. That is john from california. If you go to National Journal. Com. Nationaljournal. Com, a there is a complete list if you go to the website. Not only the type of weapon that was seized but also the airport. Nationaljournal. Com is where you can find that story. We are talking about Airport Security. Do you think it should be expanded the echo is there a federal role for expansion . Give us your thoughts for the next 10 minutes. John from washington dc is next. I dont think we should have more security. I think we should have less, to be honest. This was bound to happen in a nation of 250 million people. Nothing was going to stop this guy from doing what he was doing except for possibly the people around him understanding what was going on and catching him before he got to the airport in the first place. Somebody said tsa being the first line of defense, but that is not sure they are the last line. The first line is the community, people around us. Community Mental Health is the real issue here. Host here is roy from maryland. Caller good morning. Tsa needs to be armed and all of the airports need to be tightened down. That can drug dogs detect weapons of mass destruction. All the exits need to be close down and locked up like fort knox. Host that is going to make it difficult for the traveler. If they come in, the crazy people, they need to be locked up. Cry outis out of of cairo, saying the secretary of state is traveling to egypt. The state news media reporting