OMGWTF?! - Airport Unsecurity

I don't normally watch the local news. There is so much shady crap that goes on in Charlotte on a daily basis. It's kind of disturbing. I'm not one of those freaky people who think the world is ending. I do not think there is an impending apocalypse. It's just that watching sad stuff on the news makes me sad. And I don't like being sad. TV is for entertainment. Sad shit is not entertaining to me, so I often choose not to watch it.

Anywayyy...so I was just watching the news. Apparently a loaded gun was confiscated at the Charlotte Airport today at a security checkpoint. W.T.F. And apparently it was the 14TH GUN that has been found at Charlotte-Douglas so far this year!!! That freaking blows my mind. HOW IS THIS NOT BIGGER NEWS? 

I was shocked to hear that. Fourteen freaking guns in 6 months. Is that average? How many guns are found at the Charlotte airport in past years? How many guns have been found in nearby airports? How about across the country? Who the F are the people doing this? 

This piqued my interest. I did a quick Google search for 'guns found at airports', and apparently, this kind of stuff happens WAYYY MORE that I would have ever imagined. Just last week a loaded gun was found at the Boise airport. , making it the 4th gun found in 2013. That same day, a gun was found at the Orlando airport, , marking the 19th gun confiscated so far this year. 

I scrolled through the Google results and gathered some other interesting stats from a few headlines. In 2011, 1306 guns were found in US airports. In 2012, there were over 1500. 

Crazy stuff.